一燕不能成春。

任何人只要做一點有用的事，總會有一點報酬。這種報酬是經驗，這是世界上最有價值的東西，也是人家搶不去的東西。

不論想法如何絕妙，只會空想而不付諸實施，等於沒想一樣。不做出來讓人瞧瞧，誰也不會去注意你的高妙想法。

在最初的20年間，每星期要工作七天，每天最少工作16個小時……早上必須用兩個鬧鐘，才能驚醒起來。

當你買下一座旅館的時候，這不是事情的結束，而恰恰是個開始。

先天環境的好壞，並不足奇，成功的關鍵完全在於一己之努力。

任何一種不為集體利益打算的行為，都是自殺的行為，它對社會有害。

正如樹枝和樹幹連接在一起那樣，脫離樹幹的樹枝很快就會枯死。

一滴水只有放進大海裡才永遠不會乾涸，一個人只有當他把自己和集體事業融合在一起的時候才能最有力量。

一堆沙子是鬆散的，可是它和水泥、石子、水混合後，比花崗岩還堅韌。

個人之於社會等於身體的細胞，要一個人身體健全，不用說必須每個細胞都健全。

一朵鮮花打扮不出美麗的春天，一個人先進總是單槍匹馬，眾人先進才能移山填海。

活著，為的是替整體做點事，滴水是有沾潤作用，但滴水必加入河海，才能成為波濤。

人是要有幫助的。荷花雖好，也要綠葉扶持。一個籬笆打三個樁，一個好漢要有三個幫。

人民是土壤，它含有一切事物發展所必須的生命汁液;而個人則是這土壤上的花朵與果實。

天才並不是自生自長在深林荒野裡的怪物，是由可以使天才生長的民眾產生、長育出來的，所以沒有這種民眾，就沒有天才。

在許多問題上我的說法跟前人大不相同，但是我的知識得歸功於他們，也得歸功於那些最先為這門學說開闢道路的人。

我不應把我的作品全歸功於自己的智慧，還應歸功於我以外向我提供素材的成千成萬的事情和人物。

如果說我看得遠，那是因為我站在巨人們的肩上。

一個人要幫助弱者，應當自己成為強者，而不是和他們一樣變成弱者。

我們知道個人是微弱的，但是我們也知道整體就是力量。

只有在集體中，個人才能獲得全面發展其才能的手段，也就是說，只有在集體中才可能有個人自由。

科學家不是依賴于個人的思想，而是綜合了幾千人的智慧，所有的人想一個問題，並且每人做它的部分工作，添加到正建立起來的偉大知識大廈之中。

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

The dancing Sun the dancing moon the dancing stars and the dancing galaxies are the direct expression of our divine Self.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

I love dancing just because I've done it my whole life and it's definitely what I want to do. I feel like, I want to train with acting and do movies. Those two are my main priorities. I definitely want to be able to sing and model, too. I definitely love those, too.

I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.

Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it.

Everybody has their challenges; I couldn't say that we have more challenges than other people, they're just different.

Newspapers don't write enough about serious religious issues.

You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.

All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.

I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else, it can be unhealthy. For me being a Christian has been invaluable: it simply means acting isn't the centre of my life.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

Protection is not a principle, but an expedient.

I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.

I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy.

There are very few fighters in the ISIS organization in Iraq and Syria coming from the United States; most of them have either come from a region of the Middle East or from Europe.

'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.

Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle.

Batter strikeouts continue to go up like the Consumer Price Index.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.