Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

I don't go crazy buying expensive technology. I'd probably say my laptops and TVs are the most expensive things I've bought.

The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded.

The reason producers make stupid movies is because there are stupid people who will pay to see them.

Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great

How others judge me is none of my business.

One reason I never called balks is that I never understood the rule.

Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure.

There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.