I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

Friends don't let friends get killed by serial killers

People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.

Pretty please. With sugar.

He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

Hitting the ball is the fun part of it, but the fewer times you hit the ball the more fun you have.

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

Nothin' taken for granted, just learn from my mistakes. My will too strong, my spirit's somethin' they can't take.

I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.