They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch.

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.

It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.

Look at the footprints you've made.

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

If you want to see a shooting star, you might have to spend a lot of nights looking up.

When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd, you will be running away from distractions.

I have made mistakes and I have hurt people, I do not deny that fact. But I have corrected those mistakes vigorously once I understood the error of my ways.

As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

When I'm dead I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.