There are always going to be reasons to do the wrong thing. And the smarter the person, the better the reasons. That doesn't make it right.

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

Prague is the Paris of the '90s.

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.

This moment is your portal to the future. Use it wisely!

Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show.

Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world.

I have tremendous faith in theuniverse. I feel at home on this planet. Even though it's a very big world out there, I plan on walking right through the middle of it unharmed.

I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit.

I think in Mrs. C, I certainly played myself. A very compulsive, sweet person.

Would you like to try some cocaine?” Freud offered, “I think you will find it picks you up quite nicely.”“No thanks, ” God declined, holding his soft hands up to show his resistance.

I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.

Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. Id much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.

They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

Start telling the stories that only you can tell.

You're a disease. And I'm the cure.

I like pain. I like when it lingers. It reminds a person of what they've lived through.

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.