I was never the best athlete, but I knew how to be coached and I knew how to work hard at it.

I don't want my daughter to grow up and feel like she has to try that hard to get people to accept her.

If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.

Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.

I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.

On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it that way, I have a different centre. I go through the stress and pressure, but I think I'm lucky...

When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a...

I hope people remind me of my accident every day of my life. Because that means I'm a prime example of somebody who had it and lost everything and may not have gotten it back in the same capacity but...

I'm locked in no matter what I'm doing. If it's a competition, I'm locked in.

My job is not to analyze my career. But I am proud of the amount of work I've done and the amount of commitment I've given to it. That makes me proud.

If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align.

Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.

High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new...

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect, it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu, and personal character as possible.

I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me the most are often those that I have to figure out their meaning for...

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

President Trump promised to negotiate trade agreements to get better deals for America and protect American jobs. Bottom line: He delivered.

I'm a naturally lazy person, and I live for a challenge.

I'm not a runner. I do not like running. I love to swim. I love to surf. I do not like to run.

I think people always thought I was more of a Guido than I am.

A lot of what I do around Houston is to find ways to lift people through literacy. It's become part of our family culture. Everyone in our family has found some way and capacity to serve. You don't...

I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit...

Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.

Height doesn't matter. You see guys like Tyrod Taylor, Brees, Russell Wilson: they've proven that it doesn't matter.