How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.

I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.

If you've been fortunate enough to live out your dream in the profession of your choice, then you have an obligation to send the elevator back down.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Daryl shrugged. "If wishes were wardrobes, we'd be in Narnia.

We prefer humility in others - and if we prefer it in others - we can soon prefer it in ourselves.

I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans.

In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright.

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

Do you share my belief in Swami Vivekananda's dream that India will be a Jagad Guru once again? I see no reason for India to be left behind.

Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

So they loved as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distinct, divisions none.