"The common thread in all of my climbing is it was something new, something never done before. That commonality is more important than the discipline."

“Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.”

“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.”

“I'm a golfer not a history major.”

“I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.”

“The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.”

Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, March 3, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

“I just loved the driving part. If I didn't race anybody, it didn't make any difference as long as I could drive. It's just the physical part of getting in the car and being able to go run fast and being able to drive.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com

“Show business has never been my everything. It's a means; it's not the end. It's a means to the end. I want and have always wanted freedom. That was always my goal, to not have a boss, to not have anybody tell me what to do. Luckily, as an actor, I got that.”

Source : "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

“When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.”