You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.