No external advantages can supply self-reliance. The force of one's being ... must come from within.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it.

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

I never laugh until I've had my coffee.

Faith dare the soul to go further than it can see.

Only you can make yourself strong. Nobody else can do it for you.

It’s really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know ‘em. We’re all beautiful.

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

Don't be afraid to ask people 'why,' 'what if.' Don't be afraid to attack your career. Get in the game, don't stay on the sidelines.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the music!

I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.

Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living but existing