No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.

There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.

Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.

Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.

I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do something else, and then go back to it.

It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.

You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.

Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.

When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.

The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.

I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

The future is created through memory.

Everybody knows that I'm not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.

Just make it (his obituary): born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917.

Red squirrels... you don't see many of them since they became extinct.

My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.