Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that's a cool thing.

I would bring the government back to what it was intended to be - a plain economical government.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

I do love to cry. I'll cry at the drop of a hat. I'll cry at your basic television programme, let alone a weepie. But not big, heavy, serious crying. I haven't done that for a while, which is a relief. More like a little welling up of joy.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.

My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.