When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.

Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.

At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.

Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human being.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.