I always want to create and do things, or draw.

I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.

To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.

I've wanted recognition I wanted success I wanted appreciation I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.

My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.

Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat.

I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I'd substitute. I taught everything from English to...

None of the standard high school science courses made much of an impression on me, but I did enjoy the Advanced Placement Chemistry course I took in my senior year. This course had only eleven...

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.

It's great to be somewhat of a role model. I want to be a positive and good role model and lead by example and try to do the best I can. Playing good golf definitely draws attention, but I want to...

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you every moment becomes a prayer.

God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

Necessity is the mother of our invention.

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.

From time to time, in the moments when you need it most, God will speak to you to remind you of your beauty.

You marvel and applaud big heroes in their big heroic actions, and forget you are a hero in your humble life and have modest heroic actions to complete yourself.

The question isn't Why do we die? The question is Why do we live?

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.