You're whatever you think you are. People like to compartmentalize other people. I don't worry about what other people think. I'm not living for them.

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.

My inspiration is my hometown.

I look at failure as the fertilizer to success.

Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.

It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.

I feel like there's no such thing as failure. When something doesn't go the way I want it to, I learn from it, and I accomplish more than I initially expected to.

I feel like there's no such thing as failure.

While I was in the NFL, I would eat five times a day. I only eat twice a day now, and I box and play basketball every day. I'm extremely happy with my body and mind...

Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.

When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.

Unleash the potential that is in another and you unleash the potential that is in you.

People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.

Life gives you no guarantees. So, you love with all you have. And enjoy the time you’re given. If not, what’s it all for anyway?

In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again.

Treatment originates outside you; healing comes from within.

All I am I owe to my mother.

As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

Nobody can imitate me. You can always see impersonations of Katharine Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. But not me. Because I've always drawn on myself only.

I urge young women to look ahead and see if they want to have a lonely old age or do they want to have what I have, which is the joy of 14 beautiful grandchildren.

'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.