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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

I never thought I would end up being the Senator from New York.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.