My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.

'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.

Stay with me; I want to be alone

Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them.

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

Education is wonderful - it helps you worry about things all over the world.

The toughest thing about homework is getting mom and pop to agree on the same answer.

He has achieved success who has lived well laughed often and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children.

An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.

The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies.

That's one thing about Republican Presidents. They never went in much for plans. They only had one plan. It says "Boys, my head is turned. Just get it while you can.