A thing is only as great as the amount a person is willing to risk for it. If you are not willing to risk anything, then the thing mustn't be so great at all.

The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.

How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?

Meditation is experiencing the self in million ways.

The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.

When you have a vision, you have to see it through, and you can make anything happen. You really can, especially in this [entertainment ] industry.

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

What convinces is conviction.

In a world of more brilliance words don't mean anything.

You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't shoot, you don't pass. All you have to do is buy some clothes that don't match.

Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.