One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.

Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.

The biggest challenge is not coming up with the stunt, the biggest challenge is designing a sequence around it that sort of justifies its existence.

I loved getting to investigate the grey areas of morality.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

The greatest good is what we do for others.

You live a third of your life when you dream. So you may as well live in your dreams – the way you want to be living. The way you want to be.

I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.

Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.