For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.

I think that we all have something in common in that we have dreams. The thing about dreams is sometimes you get to live them out.

That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.

Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.

I'm 42 now, what I would consider prime time.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one yet very little between a good one and none at all.

The first word you see at the airport is 'terminal'.

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.

Fan feedback going from a box of letters once every few months to literally tweeting while the show is airing. We are able to get a much quicker response to the choices we're making as storytellers.

Youth is a season that has no repose.

I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man".

While I'm acting I'm focused on what I'm trying to say through the character. And when I'm writing, I'm just putting down on paper or on the computer what I have to say.

Death is the only real elegance.