The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life.

You will fail. That's great. Here's a secret for you - that's the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will grow.

With God’s help in the grasp of addiction you’ll find the truth. When we understand this and its purity, then true healing can begin.

What could a fool be thinking but further foolishness?

You can't just sit around and watch life pass you by. You have to keep dreaming. Sonny taught me that, and I intend to do him proud.

Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.

Blacko-oxy-tonic phosphate, it's the latest scoop. But that's alright girls, you can call it goop.

Look at those who have talked about you and doubted you. They are your inspirational reason to succeed.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.