In school, I was an underachiever.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same.

That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many.

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

How you learn has nothing to do with how brilliant you are.

As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.

Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

There was a little girl And she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead When she was good she was very very good When she was bad she was horrid.

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

Mitt Romney is running for president again. That will be attempt No. 3. Well, everybody needs a hobby. He's almost certainly running, and I'm almost certainly retiring, so I don't care.

I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

I love the expression 'makes your skin crawl,' because when you have that sensation while you're watching something, it really does.

...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.

Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.

I've been approached by many different people, but I don't really want to be known as a collaboration dude.