Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself - things could always be worse and they are for someone else!

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.

May we never let the things we can't have or don't have or shouldn't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

Your direction is more important than your speed.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

One of the greatest accomplishments in this world would be that of lifting human hearts. Blessed are they who are kind and considerate of the feelings of other people.

What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!

In writing, a good guy must never break any of the Ten Commandments. A bad guy must break every one. That's why writing female characters is so much fun. They're not GUYS at all.

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.

I love being outdoors, playing beach tennis, going for runs in the sand, or doing a three-hour hike with my best girlfriend, Mieko.

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.

My morals are important to me.

If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed - I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.

Each day's a gift of Life divine a precious jewel that's yours and mine!