Life isn't only about choice. Life is about how you provide value to your life and others.

Defeat is only a word. Defeat was the beginning of a victory.

Life without dreams or goals such as life without vision.

May I remember the goodness of the Lord at all times.

And it was then that I realized that families might be the ones who pick us up time and again but strangers also rescue us-even if they don't know they're doing so.

A Moment, however small, defines an expression.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

Action to me is something very fun to shoot.

I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.

Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.

I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.

Refuse to give up, your mistakes don't define you. They don't dictate where you're headed, they remind you.