Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.

Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life's way of preparing you for success.

Dad just told me that I'm the son of a dragon!And then he leaves?

Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

To all the fantasy owners who drafted me: You're welcome.

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.

If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years.

For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere.

I have a story that will make you believe in God.