I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.

People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat.

I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.

I feel as if I've been able to do so many things I never expected to do.

Some find it in their lovers eyes, who can deny the joy it brings. When you've found that special thing, you're flying without wings.

I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality.

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

I'm not a betting man.

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

To me, there was no better drummer than Jeff Porcaro. His musicianship and kindness to me will never be forgotten. Our loss is heaven's gain

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing.

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.