"Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly."

"If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues."

"Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring."

"There is something in me that makes me see things through."

"Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then."

"It is a essential truth that true knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions — an essential principle for the reflective life."