When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event.

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

All I can say to you, if you look after your health, eat the right stuff, do enough exercise, keep your mind active, you might be around when you're 100 having this conversation with someone.

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.

A perfect hero is about as boring as a perfect marriage.

There's no wrong choice because, whatever you choose, that's meant for you.

I'm convinced to do improv. All you have to do is listen to what people are saying to you, and then just add more information to what they've just said. That's all there is to improv, but it's the hardest thing to do.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near the Truth.

I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

The safest thing to do was get rid of the second breast. I just want to give myself the best chance possible to live.

Well, you know, what's so exciting, is that it was a really telling campaign as well. Whenever we start looking at the differences, they could never be more clear.

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.

Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

When I was young, I was in a hurry to live. And now I'm just not in a hurry.

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.

Never quit on your one and only dream!!!

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.