I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.

I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the theater, TV, films. But I guess I am a song and dance man. It's at the heart of everything I do.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

I close my eyes to indulge and reminisce of a sunset that never existed.

An artist must take comfort that there's no satisfaction whatsoever with one's creation, just a dissatisfaction that keeps one a step away from sliding into mediocrity.

If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Your mind is in every cell of your body.

America already is great, but we are great because we are good, and we will respect one another, and we will work with one another, and we will celebrate our diversity.

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.

Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.