I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence.

A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.

I find I'm luckier when I work harder.

I think work is a privilege. ... It keeps you alive, spiritually.

The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also the best in the United States.

You are my finest knight

Are you able to open to the possibility that what you want is not what you need right now? If it was what you needed it would be in your life, right now, and it would come effortlessly.

I don't roll like that but I've never been with a hooker either. Yeah, that's good to say in an interview cause I feel bad a little because people grew up watching me and that's a little disturbing.

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli (contemplative) in some degree.

No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

The problem of the universal is difficult in every case. The universal and the particular can never be separated; they always go hand in hand.

The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.

How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.