Throw a champion into the ocean, and he’ll swim.Throw a champion into the pit, and he’ll climb.Throw him off a cliff, and he’ll grow wings.Throw him into a furnace, and he’ll become gold.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.

Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

My mother was cancer. She slowly destroyed everything around her. She produced two killers; me and my brother Joe.

Be so good at what you do that no one else in the world can do what you do.

Lord deliver me from myself.