My first words were 'Seconds, please.' Most kids in kindergarten napped on a little rug. I had a braided 9 x 12.

We all think we're going to get out of debt.

It's so much easier to be cynical.

I'm washing lettuce. Soon, I'll be on fries. In a few years, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in.

My inspiration is coming more and more from the way I feel and the gratitude I feel. The older you get the more humility you have.

Minnesotans really think they run the whole world, I love that.

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.

I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.

I started a big part of my career in Vegas.

I have a very warm spot in my heart for Vegas.

A prophet is not someone who first had an idea. He is the one to first believe in it and take it to its conclusion.

The keystone… some have called God, some Brahma, some Zeus… some even IAO… but in truth, O seeker, it is Thy-SELF.

What is to give light must endure burning.

It's pretty amazing to see something in your head and write it down, go out and shoot it, then see it on the big screen. It's a pretty amazing feeling.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

The only way I think about kids in production is practically, the younger the kids are the harder it is to shot the movie.

It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.

My own brain. When I get it out of the way, I'm fine.