Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of us must make do with illusions. Or else -- or else we could not endure.

Anything you strive to correct, it will increasingly become wrong. So just let go of that which does not turn out right.

To love your weakness, negativity and darkness is to accept half of who you are.

The world is a drought when out of love.

If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.

You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much

The ABCs are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

I've always tried to keep my cover prices on the low side. I'm more interested in getting people to read the books we publish and less interested in the profit margin.

If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.

In my career as a double, a lot of my job is to not just do the fights to make them look cool, but also to appear as the same person as the actor I am playing.