Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

Faith in action works and gets far good results than faith

A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.

Imagine a sunset, lavender and red / as battered morals . . .

If we could sell 100,000 units every album, that would rock. We'd have a big cult following, we'd have a built-in fanbase so we could pretty much play anywhere, people would show up and rock out

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

The question is not, 'Do you have a problem?' The question is, 'Does the problem have you?'

If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?

Those who skim over the surface in a hit-or-miss fashion not only forfeit the best returns on their efforts, but are ever barred from the keen pleasure of seeing beauty in the results of their labor.

I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.