When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

The new national campfire - radio.

What I like most about change is that its a synonym for hope . If you are taking a risk what you are really saying is I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it.

People are pretty much alike. Its only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

In the coldest February as in every other month in every other year the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

If I'm a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose.

The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's something about it that says something positive about the human spirit, that a bunch of people can get together and by following a few simple traffic rules can create art and can entertain an audience and can thrill and exalt each other.

I think that's what happens when you get scared, and you're rushing, and you don't have time. Rather than cut things out and take a chance, and build things up you think are working, you cut everything down a little bit, and everything sort of suffers.

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

Swanky means classy and funky.

It's embarrassing sometimes, the way actors or musicians sometimes get made untouchable.

Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Cycling has encountered more enemies than any other form of exercise.

Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.

I never could make out what those damn dots meant.

A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.

I like to watch Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, because I like them when they travel. I like Ina Garten, 'The Barefoot Contessa.' Giada is really nice, but I get a little bit bored with just staying in the kitchen.

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

Every dollar spent on education should go toward helping our teachers teach and our students learn.

I'm gonna live till I die.

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

When your product solves a problem that costs customers sleep, revenue, or profits, things are definitely looking up.

'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.

When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.