I got accepted at Yale but never went.

I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.

And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.

I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.

You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They're cute, they stand upright and they look like they're wearing tuxedos.

Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!

I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.

You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Follow your conscience. Sleep well.

We are not troubled by things but by the opinion which we have of things.

Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth

You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.

The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, "Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears."

The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.

The press is the fourth estate of the realm.