Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

Exactly one day in your life your kid will ski as good as you do. The next day, he'll ski better than you.

If you don't do it this year, you'll just be one year older when you do.

A pair of skis are the ultimate transformation to freedom

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.

Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith.

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

Zoe leaned closer to Ruth, nearly nose to nose. “If they were made from better stuff, they would have pretended the fault was theirs. They would have made a moment of it--a pretty moment.

A prophet is not without honour save in his own country.

Anyone can win two fights in one night, but it is the third fight that tells you if you have steel balls or not.

The little things in life are the happiest

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Dealing with race is about educating white folks.

The Constitution gives the president of the United States an extraordinarily wide grant of authority to use the power of the pardon.

Although I really like the people I travel with, family is just different, and having them around at all times is a really nice thing - and a luxury.

It's true, the Shaolin and the Wu-Tang, could be dangerous.

I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom who just planted me in front of the television.