Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.

The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is.

If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

We are weak Christians simply because we have refused to be bondservants of Christ

In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.

When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.

I have been talking about that for a long time, but it's very, very important to me [to unify the country.]

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers.

Robin [Williams], he's pretty dynamic. I had a lot of fun but I also felt like there was no onus on me to be funny.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

He was like a second father to me (of George Halas)