I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.

I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2?

I only really work when I want to.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.

I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now.

I'm getting grumpier all the time.

Though Queen Victoria in England had suggested that makeup was impolite, even vanity, Gideon saw it as yet another weapon. It was not so different from magic.

Waiting accentuates our helplessness, ant that is what God seems committed to revealing. Only when we know ourselves to be helpless do we fully experience his grace and glory. We have to wait for it.

The only truth is love beyond reason.

Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?

somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near

A lean purse is easier to cure than to endure.

Winning means everything...You show me a good loser and I'll show a loser.

Justice is the right of the weakest.

That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer.

But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.