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“Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor. I have the same answer for everyone who asks: If you have a choice and could reasonably be happy doing something else, by all means go at once and do something else. Acting or writing or directing in the theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those who are so smitten with the need that there is no choice.”
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“Doubt is a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep his promises. Faith is an active confidence that God's promises are always true.”
Source : James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.63, Moody Publishers
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“Sports taught me how to compete on the court, and taught me how to compete in life. Sports and life run parallel with one another.”
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“I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.”
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“There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us”
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“In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.”
Source : "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000. 
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“Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.”
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“Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.”
