I should at least die as I had lived—fighting.

If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.

As much as I enjoy a fight, I cannot always indulge myself, and just now I had more weighty matters to occupy my time than spilling the blood of strange warriors.

Work while you can. But avoid overwork

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.

Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

I get to be creative and touch other people's lives.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin.

The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.