When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

Dwelling on the past is like dragging a boat over dry land.

Values are the measuring stick for howyou make decisions in business: goal setting, employee conduct, recognition, discipline—everything.

The apparent facts, if you like. I'm not a philosopher. We lawyers don't deal in ultimate realities. Who knows what they are? We deal in appearances.

Whatever fells your mind is what you are. So, feel loving and peaceful for no reason at all.

The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

I missed 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games and missed the shot to win the game 26 times.

No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame.

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.