All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.

I was raised to face any challenge.

The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

It was all in His hands now - as it had always been.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

men are comfortable around strange women, but women are rarely comfortable around strange men.

To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.

I had a great career and I enjoyed all of it, with the exception of losing.

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.

If you want to seed a place with activity, the first thing to do is to put out food.

I think good actors tend to be really funny.