I'm a lot happier in people's living rooms weekly than I think I would be if I was really, really relying on a movie career to keep me fulfilled and excited.

Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?

Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!

If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn't need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don't understand.

Every man has problems that only life insurance can solve. In the young man’s case, the problem is to create cash; for the older man, to conserve it.

Youll have the same problems when I walk out, as you had when I walked in... unless you let me take your problems with me.

The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.

You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.

I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.

Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.

Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on.

For me, even my break time I like to pull out the bow and just go over a Vivaldi sonata and keep my head sharp, keep everything sharp.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

Death is not big thing, what is important is God's service.

Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a key role in shaping how we see the world.