If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

You will never find time for anything. You must make it.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A mans venom poisons himself more than his victim.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

If we do what is necessary all the odds are in our favor.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

What you most repent of is a lasting sacrifice made under an impulse of good-nature. The goodness goes; the sacrifice sticks.

A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

There's that great thing about acting - you're wearing your heart on your sleeve, and you're speaking off the cuff. You know, you're fearless about it, and - and it's great. And I love it.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.

I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.

Ordinary Catholics are praying when they do not think they are. They are praying when they offer implicitly all they are doing to God.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.

For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.

Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.

Mortal experiences give us the opportunity to assess what we are doing with our lives.

It's amazing what we can get away with and what we can't. But it's not for me to decide.

Often trials and tribulations are allowed to come into our lives because of what we are doing right.

When you are young, you are a little naive.

I write first drafts by hand. Never do I open an umbrella inside the house. I don't predict wins or losses. I used to stand on a certain piece of rug if my brothers and husband were watching football and their team got in trouble - but now the luck went out of that rug. If a circle is involved, I try to go clockwise.

One of our deepest needs is to be at home.

There are interesting tensions that will naturally occur with any relationship. No matter what setting, what era, the tension is very, very real. It's basic human tension.

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.

Id like to see one person just one who would own up to having been a coward.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.