Make friends with people who want the best for you.

Stand up straight with your shoulders back.

Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.

Pursue what is meaningful not what is expedient.

Tell the truth - or at least, don't lie.

Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't.

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

If a motive affects me, and I am compelled to act on it because it proves to be the 'strongest' of its kind, then the thought of freedom ceases to have any meaning. How should it matter to me whether I can do a thing or not, if I am forced by the motive to do it?

Alzheimer's disease is death before death, and I'm terrified of it.

Steal a little and they'll put you in jail, steal a lot and they'll make you king.

Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to.

Retirement is a time given to find God within yourself.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

We've got to be Americans first. We've got to pull together and unite.

I was totally humbled by how hard it is to create a product every day that needs to be made from scratch.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

I'm really going to miss me.

Fear God and work hard.

The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.

I will settle down & teach for the rest of my days.

I'm so happy when someone does something original, and there's no focus group or planning committee. If the cinema doesn't get an injection of that once in a while, we're in trouble.

I see myself as a story teller.

Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.

I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.

I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

My friends in Paris are writers, or something like that, whereas my friends in New York are doing cool stuff in finance and living very different lives. In writing, it's pretty solitary, so it doesn't really matter who's around.

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.

What a splendid thing watercolor is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.