What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

Petitions are ridiculous.

What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

I drink because I'm thirsty.

I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?

I want to be a champion for a long time, and I want to take the least amount of punishment possible doing so.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital.

Treat people the way you want to be treated. Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Respect is earned, not given.

I can say I won a Senior British Open at Turnberry. I think that's the best thing about it, the whole week, was playing this course. It's a challenging, very tough course, under extreme weather. But you know, it's nice to win any event.

I just love doing different things, which is what being a working author is like.

In college, my friend Melanie and I used to have weekly Jimmy Stewart viewings, and 'Harvey' seemed to make its way into the rotation an inordinate amount of times.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

If you chase perfection, you often catch excellence.

Success is sweet the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.

One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. But the American drama, especially when it involves race, is always more complicated than that.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

'Jurassic Park' was able to get away with big, dynamic filmmaking that might be out of place in another kind of story.

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.

Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

The story of the Web starts in 1980, when Berners-Lee, a young consulting physicist at the CERN physics laboratory near Geneva, grew frustrated with existing methods for finding and transferring information.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.