I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.

You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."

The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.