It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.

I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.

I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

I think there comes a time when you realize that you need God in your life, God's Word, and the spiritual guidance that only He can give.