I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

A good story is always written with the tears of tragedies and triumphs, and the love and kindness of our lives.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.

I can't raise the bar of others if I haven't raised the bar for myself.

Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.

Sometimes I sing very honestly, really as moving as possible.

It has all happened so quickly, but it's exciting, I just wanna get back to playing football you know.

When I'm on the court, I picture myself as like a gladiator.