No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s.

The one thing women love more than money is power.

Everybody wants to be great at something.

There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

With a cigar like in life you got to have some length and some girth.

No matter how bad things are you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Synergy is the creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.

We may regard the solar systems as separate sponges, swimming in a World of Divine Spirit, and thus it will be apparent that in order to travel from one solar system to another, it would be necessary to be able to function consciously in the highest vehicle of man, the Divine Spirit.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

All means prove but a blunt instrument if they have not behind them a living spirit.

Daniel, my big brother, is eight years older. I'm lucky he didn't mind hanging out with his little sister and my younger brother.

Then I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead?

Never let em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think youve worked too hard to make dinner for them which of course you have

The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared.

Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.

But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.

Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes.

My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin and a head full of big, wet-looking curls, black as oil. And he had the smile of a scoundrel - the kind of smile that disarmed men and undressed women.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things.