To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill, " said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

One of the things that most people aren't aware of when they think of the Civil War is the number of people and associated animals. (Armies) weren't mechanized. They had to rely on horses and mules.

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

We are not seeking to impose a recall.

I eat smart - I do think that's the sort of thing that will eventually show up in the condition of your skin, your hair, and your nails, and your own feeling about yourself.

Women liked me because I made them laugh.

Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.

Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.