Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

One decision make differences, so make one.

The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.

'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

The Vietnam war was fought over portion size.

There are differences in the businesses themselves, but the fundamentals are the same: give customers a good experience, charge them a reasonable price, listen to them, and treat them with respect.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.