Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Now that her spirit had left, I’d thought she would feel light. Then I realized it was the spirit that carries the weight of the body and not the other way around.

Desire inspires us to be our very best.

To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.

Everybody can doubt, and they are free to doubt, and I don't want to convince anyone.

The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.