I am no more humble than my talents require.

Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.

I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.

So little time and so little to do.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

Ballet is the fairies baseball.

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left.

It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.

I have decided to make a personal message to David Haye. I want him to fight me, to be a man. I wish there will be enough excitement, pressure and courage for David Haye to fight me.

I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.

Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.

The truth is that perhaps everything has a price but certainly everyone has to pay more price only for their lies.

A great mantra to have, whether you're breaking up with your boyfriend or you lose your job, or something changes that you didn't anticipate - which is a fact of life, and very much a fact of running a business - is: 'I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.'

There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon.

It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

Anythings possible if youve got enough nerve.

At some point you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point the final decisions need to be yours. At some point you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

You can make a difference, and you can make it now. You can make a difference, in your own life, in your family, your community, your world.

As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.

A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock.

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy.

Sexuality surrounds us like a dangerous aura. The same reverence that is given to the spirit is not given to the flesh. We have had a sexual revolution, but the sexual revolution only has made sex more pervasive. It hasn't granted the level of reverence and respect that it should have.

Her smile is the simplest miracle that she can create anytime.

I think it's pretty well established that great schools are predicated on great faculty. That is not a Wisconsin market; that is a worldwide market.