I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part - and it was very difficult to break into film, obviously - then I'd write one myself.

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.

My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

When you feel good about the work you're doing, that's what's important, not the budget or anything like that. If you're happy about the actors you're working with, that's what's important.

I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

Yeah, I like to gamble.

Please, if you're making a movie, start out with a good script, at least! Please!

He who thinks little errs much…

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. Wishing you a great journey.

Volleyball is not like a formula so we must give players some freedom.

Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others - a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill.