I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.

The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.

I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

Your life is going to be influenced by friends you mingle with.

...it is impossible to reason people out of affiliations they have not been reasoned into.

Small people have small minds, and thus deride big dreamers.Small people have small hearts, and thus disparage big chancers.Small people have small souls, and thus disdain big achievers.

Our relationship had been doomed form the start, because it was based on grief, and unlike love, grief eventually passed.

Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

You don’t get rich off your day job, you get rich off your homework.

there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be

Side note to parents: Anyone who thinks 'Dude, Where's My Car' is more appropriate for children than 'American Pie' because it obtained a PG-13 rating needs to stop trusting the MPAA.

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

[Hillary Clinton] was going to have a very difficult pathway going forward anyway.