The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination.

The questions you don't ask are just as important as you do. The questions you ask show what you understand, and ones you don't show what you know.

Know yourself. Be authentic. Have courage.

Reality is only as true as it is perceived. Reality does not change. How it is perceived does.

There is no better satisfaction than to see your children make your dreams theirs, and achieve them on their terms.

Words are free, action is not.

Success is not an end in itself. It should be a means to an end - happiness. If success does not lead to happiness, it is called "failure".

The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination.

Live in the present. It won't last too long.

The more golden the opportunity, the less likely you will see it.

Words do not solve problems, actions do.

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

I wanted it in the way you sometimes want to jump into very cold water, even though you know it won't feel good. I wanted to go numb. To see what it felt like to be someone else.

It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for the audience.

Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.

We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it.

There's a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn't very loveable.