People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.

Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

You must first be willing to fail — and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.

O, do not pray for easy lives.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.