The reason you want your kids to pay attention in school is you haven't the faintest idea how to do their homework.

Nurses nurse and teachers teach and tailors mend and preachers preach and barbers trim and chauffeurs haul and parents get to do it all.

An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.

Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

My mom would have different fragrances for different times of the year. They were a part of her identity. I don't remember the specific ones she used, but I remember the bottles.

Reality TV has ruined people's ability to watch documentary.

As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

There is no type of miracle that can't happen at least once in golf.

I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.

Penalties are awful, unfair, but what else is there?

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.