I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites.

I think one day youll find that you're the hero you've been looking for.

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant...and you may quote me.

The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget.

Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

To the man who prays habitually (not only when he feels like it-that is one of the snares of religion-but also when he does not feel like it) Christ is sure to make Himself real.

But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.

If you are born of God then you have the potential to be victorious in all things

He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.

I feel most alive when I'm singing along to old gospel music.

I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us in.

I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.