The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.