I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset."

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

Dude--she's your wife." He pointed to the locker where the Bible lay concealed. "God first, family second, country third.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

You have to know where you were going in order to get there.

My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds, Must kiss their own feet.