Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.

To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness.

If I can take it, I can make it.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.

You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

Don't stay in this now. You'll fall behind.

Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh.

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.

A good friend is a person who thinks you're one of the good eggs, even if he knows you're a little cracked.

Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.