My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.

And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.

I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.

You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They're cute, they stand upright and they look like they're wearing tuxedos.

Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!

I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.

You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.

Gratitude is incomplete without the act of giving thanks.

As when we can recall so vividlyWe almost touch, Or think of all the gestures that we failedTo make.

What would it be like to hold a different girl?

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.

Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.

Even when [Federal Reserve Chairman Ben] Bernanke said the recession was over ... you think that would have been a bigger boom somewhere, but it seems we just take everything in stride.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.

So the first thing I learned about how to get superior performance is not to buy stocks that are near their lows, but to buy stocks that are coming out of broad bases and beginning to make new highs.