If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.

If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

I think the best way to get a good night sleep is to work hard throughout the day. If you work hard and, of course, work out.

And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.

But if you want to change the world, don't be afraid of the circuses.

My wife and I make the bed every morning, but it's a queen size bed today, as opposed to a rack, you know, a small single bed, which I had in basic SEAL training.

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

We need but little learning to live happily.

Do you have a clear Direction of Life or are you merely floating down the river of Life like a dead fish?

It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s.

This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.

Whenever we criticize ourselves, we compound the issue.

By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.

Directing is exhausting, but not for the actual directing part, when you say "Action!" and give creative notes. As a director, the exhausting part is that you are a professional answer-machine.

I ended up realizing that NASA was unlikely to get me into space, or get me to the moon or beyond, and I needed some other way to drive this.