[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what's best in it and make it work. That's what it was like.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

I'm an avid biography reader.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.

Timing is everything, as you know.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

If you read proverbs, you will find answers to every puzzle.

We can face whatever circumstances await us with courage if we just reflect on God’s faithfulness and place our confidence in His great power and loving purpose for our lives.

...the real purpose of running isn’t to win a race. It’s to test the limits of the human heart.

I first met my wife in the tunnel of love. She was digging it at the time.

Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

Being humble matters.

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.