Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Spring makes everything look filthy.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

I think perhaps we all cook to feed some kind of hunger in ourselves. I am nourished by being surrounded by family and friends, by creating something delicious for them, by nurturing them.

I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write 'August Osage County.' It helps me to write any play that I'm working on because I think one of the things I do well is write good roles for actors.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

All of us write wish fulfillment.

I do feel almost violent when I'm watching things that I don't think are good enough. I get furious for the audience. I want to say to them, 'This play is not supposed to be like this. They've got it completely wrong. You should be electrified by this.'

Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.

After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.

Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.

Absinthe, on a winter evening/Lights up in green the sooty soul.

I just love music, and I love what music does for people.

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

What I've learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.

At some point, the time will have passed when individuals are capable of major discoveries.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

It is in the best interests of my constituents and the country to repeal and replace the ACA, and defunding/delaying implementation is consistent with that approach.

So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.