Try Quotes

When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun’.

Essentially, I’m untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I’m going to be playing.

The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.

Don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.

You must ask for God’s help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.

Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

Great things happen to those who don’t stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.

No matter how hard you try, some parts of your soul never stop aching.

Nothing happens without focus. Don’t try to do everything at once. Take it one step at a time.