The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Voice in the nightA voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking.

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

To know music is to transfer it to life.

The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.