These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.

I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere

My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.