If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.
I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice.
More than a few studies have shown that the five people you spend the most time with represent you - so you need to decide - who do you want to be?
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit.
Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded.
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living.
I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.
With modeling, I'm thankful to have so many work options. But you do have to be able to say no. In reality, everything would be yes because every gig pays more than any normal job. But you still have to keep your priorities straight in life. And my priorities are my girls.
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.
I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.
I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.
For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That's where you set your goal.
The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.
