Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

When my marriage broke up... I had just put on 45 pounds for my 'Shall We Dance?' character. I had to eat 10,000 calories a day just to put on weight while training with Tony Dovolani. I basically stayed in bed for a six-month rotation of depression naps. Dance helped me lose the weight.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.