Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could she give him to cure his doubt?

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.

Volvo — they're boxy but they're good.

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.

Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.

Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters

I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?

Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.