This is the year you really put the stake in the ground.

This is the year you really put the stake in the ground.

Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.

Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

People didn't stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs.

Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.

I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles.

I like working with kids. I just have a way with kids.

When you get released from the NFL it's not a pleasant experience and I may have sulked for about two or three years. Then I was like, 'You know what? It's time to get back on the wagon.' I have nothing to be ashamed of.

Cats hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other.

Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives.

If you are going to go broke before retirement retire first.

If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.

In the tapestry of life, we're all connected. Each one of us is a gift to those around us helping each other be who we are, weaving a perfect picture together.

My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.

I'm as radical as libertarians come.

True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.

Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because its so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesnt want to or cant join the Big Parade.

When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.

In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

The Americans were never interested in what was best for the Shiites.

I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!

Its always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

Classicism is health, romanticism is disease.

I've been in Congress 14 years. I've been on the Appropriations Committee in which we are in charge of trying to move legislation.

I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.

He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different.

When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.