Of course, I am grateful for my strength. It makes me self-sufficient. When I bought a refrigerator, I carried it myself up the stairs to my apartment on the eighth floor.

I train every day of my life as they have never trained a day in theirs.

The loser is usually the one who is ready to lose. Fight, overcome difficulties, control your emotions – and you will win.

The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens.

A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul. I'm dying, Landon.

Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.