Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.

I'm too drunk to taste this chicken

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.

I've only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away

My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.

No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.

There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.

I think a dream is just a suggestion to start something out, do something.

If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.

What nobody understood then is this: The only way that you achieve what you want and fulfill your dreams and become great is by demanding that sort of attention. You have to make it happen.

Emmerich knows how to do "big", but the trick is in making it (movies) both big and fun.

I think like the species I am studying, whatever it is. If I am watching a lizard, I become the lizard. Gazing ath the water at a pike, I become the pike.

Every burden on the back can become a gift in the hand.

You can't change someone. The best thing you can do for someone is to just accept them.

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.

The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.