Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little bit better than you said you would.

I've seen a jillion miracles. They're all around. Every green leaf is a miracle.

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

God is bigger than people think.

I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground

This whole kissing process was turning out to be far more complicated and stressful than I'd thought it would be.

It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.

A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything

Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.

Good kings are slaves, and their people are free.

Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.

There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.