I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.

I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book

But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.

And I was having too much fun to stop now.

you can’t use logic on human behavior.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!

The past ruins the present to destroy the future. Take charge of the NOW.

Every effective person must be able to sell and teach, whether in private or to a group in public. This applies equally to skills and talents as it does to products and services.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

There is a number missing. I can see it.

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

You have to be unique.

Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.