When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting.

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.

The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.

It takes a long time to get a reputation for quality. There are people in our industry, they're basically copiers. Look at the cars on the streets. They all look alike. But if you put quality into a product, then have it validated, you have huge credibility.

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Aggregate aid is to the Ethiopian economy what Obama's fiscal stimulus was to the American economy: minus these injections, both economies would suffer catastrophically. The theatrical blustering of the Ethiopian government notwithstanding, donor countries have a make-or-break power over the Ethiopia's prosperity.

When you have running goals you have hope and when you have hope you have everything.

I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.

I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.

In 1995, we had evidence of the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden being in the Philippines, living in the Philippines. We had evidence of front organizations set up in the Philippines. And we uncovered evidence about, which would help the U.S. with - about the perpetuators of the World Trade Center bombing.

Example is leadership.

You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.

Growth in the Chinese automobile market has exceeded everyone's expectations.

I get up in the morning. I usually do a radio interview early in the morning. I usually do a book signing, because I'm also a cookbook author, so I'm at some store, at a Walmart or a Williams Sonoma, for three hours, standing up, signing autographs, and taking pictures for three hours.

Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.

I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was.

Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.

I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.

Apocalypse is the eye of a needle through which we pass into a different world.