On many young actors that don't give their parents proper credit: I'm still waiting for some actor to win, say, an Oscar... and deliver the following acceptance speech: I would like to thank my parents, first of all, for letting me live.

And to those people with no children but who think they'd like to have them some day to fulfill their lives. Remember: With fulfillment comes responsibility.

A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

But if that's what you want to be, that's what you will be - as long as you study.

You are more important to yourself than you think you are.