The common perception is it only happens to people who aren't paying attention.

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.

My inspiration is my hometown.

I look at failure as the fertilizer to success.

Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.

It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.

I feel like there's no such thing as failure. When something doesn't go the way I want it to, I learn from it, and I accomplish more than I initially expected to.

You're whatever you think you are. People like to compartmentalize other people. I don't worry about what other people think. I'm not living for them.

I feel like there's no such thing as failure.

While I was in the NFL, I would eat five times a day. I only eat twice a day now, and I box and play basketball every day. I'm extremely happy with my body and mind...

Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.

I have learned that I always feel happier and healthier when I offer genuine love to other people.

There is no hope or joy except in human relations.

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction?

Protect your reputation. Don't be afraid of making mistakes.

A ley line is what might be called a field of force, a trail of telluric energy. There are hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, all over Britain, and they've been around since the Stone Age.

Speed slows down the game.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.