It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; the tear may be forgotten.... but the hurt stays in the heart.

If you work, if you wait, you will find the place where the four-leaf clovers grow.

How could we have improved ourselves, if we had not dared to read, learn and write?

One who wishes to cross the ocean first builds a ship.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

We have a Bill of Rights, which protects each of us from a bullying society, but no Bill of Responsibilities, which would oblige us to answer to the needs of others.