I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.

Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their movement and their death.

Friends don’t come ready-made or one-size-fits-all. True friends are always custom fit and one-of-a-kind…just for you.

Love is the reason why, even in suffering, we smile.

A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.

Tolerance is just a fancy word for ignoring a fascist ideology. Acceptance is the only way.

I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.