If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.

To play nose tackle in the NFL, you have to be unemployed or crazy. I was unemployed. The other part is still up in the air.

If you love something, let it go. If you don't love something, definitely let it go. Basically, just drop everything, who cares.

I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.

I must be the only person in the world who's looking forward to going into hospital. I can't wait to get it over and done with.

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.

Somebody says, 'Well, I can't be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself' Well, then you will always be poor.

If I don't commit to fighting for the future, 20 years later, 30 years later, after the end of the expiration date of the joint declaration, Hong Kong will be more at risk and in greater danger.

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

Have high regard for yourself. Be your own best friend.