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Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund 'Obamacare.' They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the 'Obamacare' program.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.