Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

Don't try too hard to be young. Be who you are.

In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house - I should run into it.

I love to cook and I know a lot of people watching love those segments, but so often they feel rushed to me. If we give 'em a bit more time to breathe, people will get more out of them.

We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.

What's interesting is that I get messages from people who think I'm gone. I have messages like "Tony, we're so sorry. We loved you!"

Every job has its pros and cons. The NFL just has more of both.

I'm into women. I just really like women a lot.

I am looking forward to getting to do things I have never done before.

One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home.

We can't want an education for kids more than they want it for themselves.

To dream of a magical world is one thing. To be told it exists is quite another.

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

Pride leaves no room for grace.

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers.

I think that whatever you do, if you're a singer, a rapper, an architect, dentist, treat that like when you're doing it, your whole career depends on that moment.

The mind says there is nothing beyond the physical world; the HEART says there is, and I've been there many times.

My personal opinion is, how, if you never hung out with somebody, do you know them so well? I never hung out with that dude because the dude is a weirdo.

Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.

I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.