I think we are a product of all our experiences.

Details create the big picture.

I was sort of a sissy as a little kid.

You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.

I believe in giving back very strongly.

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.

A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.

The American people are strange in their attitudes toward their idols, " he (Taft) mused. They lead them on and then "cut their legs from under them, " simply "to make their fall all the greater.

Trials can be hard, if you don't know God.

You do your own stunts as an actor, and you end up getting hurt. It's not your job. You've got stunt guys. Stunt guys make a lot of money.

I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.

Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.

She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we'd had chicken tonight.

One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.

Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the 1980s. And he had become, you know, a human shingle and a punchline.