I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on.

If you want to talk to me, you'll have to put out that cigarette.

I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.

I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story.

I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.

I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.

I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'

Nutrition makes me puke.

You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.

I love how our industry always stands united.

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

I do think all things in moderation. I mean, the thing to me - it actually doesn't bother me very much if people want to read chick lit. But it makes me, you know, sort of disheartened when that's all that people want to read.

Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.

But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.

The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad.

In our dreams we are always young.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was four days old, I was on a flight back to Spain because that's where my family was living at the time.

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

As a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism pursued to a certain point bring men back to common sense.

What you can do with visual effects is enhance the look of the character, but the actual integrity of the emotional performance and the way the character's facial expressions work, that is what is going to be created on the day with other actors and the director.

I think the whole thing is: If it makes sense in your head, the audience will go along with it.

It is a powerful practice to be generous when you are the one feeling in need.

I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.

I always have a suitcase ready to go. My wife and I are both very much like this. We're both vagabonds, and we have been since the time we were married.

If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what's important to them.

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.

Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.

Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.