As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

Sean was young, vibrant, capable. Life hadn't even begun to digest his hope.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.

Putting miles in your training log is like putting money in the bank. You begin to draw interest on it immediately.

It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

There was a perfection to the moment that made Sienna think: Yes, this is it. This is who we're meant to be together.

There is also the guitar player Pat Metheny with whom I'd like to work with: he is so elegant and so emotional when he plays that I am sure that, together, we could make a good team.

After a year of transformation Foster's Group sits at the doorstep of a period of sustained strong earnings growth.

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life