When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."

I don't love everything I do, and I don't always like how I am in it. I'm not always pleased.

I'm leaving town cause my children are acting too much like me.

The ultimate source of abundance is to give love for the betterment of others.

Theory without practice is of little value, whereas practice is the proof of theory.Theory is the knowledge, practice the ability.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.

I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.

I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man.

HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes.

God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.

If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!

Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.