The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive.

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive.

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.

Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.

Persevere and get it done.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

Forget the past the future will give you plenty to worry about.

Work Hard, Stay Positive, And Get Up Early. It's The Best Part Of The Day.

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.

100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?

Newspapers are not made any longer by news or journalism. They are made by sheer weight of money expressed in free gift schemes. They serve not the interests of the many, but the vested interests of the few.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don't need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.

I give with reason.

The support that we have from the network in terms of watching us at an unusual time in the year and playing our episodes three times in a given week until we built an audience... is exceptional.

Planets that don't currently sport plate tectonics, such as Venus and Mars, are scarcely habitable. Tectonics might be a requirement of any world that aspires to a rich diversity of life.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

The Spaniards are slow in their motions but strong in their attachments.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would it be like if I were a werewolf?'

Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.

People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.

What I know is that we no longer have free enterprise capitalism in health care; it's not a system any longer where people are able to innovate. It's not based on voluntary exchange. The government is directing it.

There is no police brutality.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don't go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

It kind of sounds pretentious, but a film I find deeply romantic is 'Buffalo '66,' which is a film by Vincent Gallo. It's about how you break down all those barriers and expose yourself and open yourself up to ultimately being hurt.

The greats are 'The Shining', 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Don't Look Now', 'The Exorcist' - those movies were not really slashers: they were about psychological terror and had very deep emotional backdrops. If we do our best, '6 Miranda Drive' can be that kind of a movie.

If a man's free will to adopt ideas and values is inalienable, his freedom of action - his freedom to put these ideas into effect in the world - is not in such a fortunate condition.

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

I've always had a longstanding dream, ever since I was a kid, where I was running on a big lake of ice and I kept running and kept running, just about to where I was trying to get to, and I fell through the ice, and then I couldn't find the hole where I fell through to get back out again.