We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.

Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.

By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.

My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.

My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.

For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?

Giving freely is sharing freely.

The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

I taught Sunday School for two years. And I got fired. I abused my authority. I used to teach class like this, "OK, if one more person talks, everybody is going to Hell."

I always say the next book is my favorite, because without a "next" book, you don't really have a career as a book author.

The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.

It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.