A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

Visits always give pleasure--if not the arrival, the departure.

He who serves two masters has to lie to one.

Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival the departure.

Laws go where dollars please.

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.

Fears hide within fears....

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.

Being an umpire wasn't such a tough job. You really have to understand only two things and that's maintaing discipline and knowing the rule book.

I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'

Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way.

People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.

All that matters is when you show your fans love it's like you're one of them.

Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

Passion - and humor will permit all of us to do some marvelous things.