Role models are fine. Roll models are better. Anyone who can do a forward roll is pretty awesome in my book.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!

My wife's not only my best friend but she's damn hot, too.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

For a good man fame is always a problem.

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

I have a Disability yes that's true, but all that really means is I may have to take a slightly different path than you.

I certainly wish Gov. Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views...and then go back to Alaska.

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.