Try not to waste your entire life working just to earn a paycheck. Seek to discover what your true passion in life is, and start working on turning it into an empire of your own.

View Conflict as an Adventure not a threat.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns.

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

There is nothing more painful in the world than Aly when she makes her big eyes. She makes her big hurt eyes, there's nothing you can do. She just kills you.

To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.

If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.