No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.