Schmerz ist Wahrheit

People do not by default follow the strongest, but they follow the bravest

He was the first prime minister in a long time who did not have a son or a son-in-law in business or real estate

I really started hanging out with Steve [Murphy, the inspiration for Holbrook's character] a lot. I got educated that way. It was crash course. You learn as quickly as possible.

and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.

Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.

Also, as I've gotten older and more mature, I've become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that's reflected onstage.

Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.

Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.

Men are less forgiving than women.

You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one.