All true wealth is biological.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

The reason politics makes strange bedfellows is because they all like the same bunk.

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.

If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.

The only important thing in this life is to figure out how to use the experiences that you have to make the world a better place.

Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never Go back to Texas again

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.

My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

You've got to realize that when all goes well, and everything is beautiful, you have no comedy. It's when somebody steps on the bride's train, or belches during the ceremony that you've got comedy!

The assault on Malta will cost us many casualties...but...I consider it absolutely essential for the future development of the war. If we take Malta, Libya will be safe.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.