Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.

After you have the basics down it's all mental.

I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.

All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

They celebrated the sins, while the kindness continued to weep in the corner. The swords of the demons shined brighter, while the wings of the angels were crumpled and bled.

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

Mourning your first love is as important as meeting your first love. It's the whole cycle.

Just think: your family are the people most likely to give you the flu.

People shouldn’t be ashamed of their bodies...especially women.

I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.

Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.