I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

Hope has a way of casting shadows on the truth.

Nothing else in the whole wide world matters as much as avenging your sister.

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable.

Something unfathomable lies behind every thought ... something for which there aren't any words.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.