You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.

Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.

Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life's way of preparing you for success.

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

Wealth and intelligence should not be categorized as relatives.

It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants.

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.

I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

Every day declare for yourself what you want in life. Declare it as though you have it!

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.