Every wall is a door.

What one fool can understand, another can.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

God helps those who help themselves.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There’s a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there’s something in there that’ll make you laugh.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

People want to feel hopeful.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Everybody likes a compliment.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.