Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight... The truly wise person is color-blind.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

The sun is new each day.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

In reality, relationships that are successful tend to take the attitude, 'How can I help you?' 'How can I enrich your life?' 'How can I be a better husband to you,' if it's a marriage.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of 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.

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.

You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.