My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

The reason of football is not to be the best but to be the best team

Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.

See God gave us the talent, but the devil make us famous.

I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

I'm a Jewish boy from Jersey. I was born with a strong sense of right and wrong, and a strong sense that the world can be a ludicrous, unfair, inhumane place.

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge.

My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.

I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

I don't dream football. I dream the American Dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

Life doesn't stop with football.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.

Always speak words such that you can give in written.

Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

...you're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty.

I think politicians sometimes badly underestimate the true feelings that Americans have for the land.

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

...now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not on speaking terms.

An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.