Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

There's an old adage, " he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

A life has to move or it stagnates.

(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:)"Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.

It was ... disconcerting to examine your charts before a proposed flight only to find that in many cases the bulk of the terrain over which you had to fly was bluntly marked: 'UNSURV

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

Serve the Lord and then your success will be with Joy

For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

My wife and I make the bed every morning, but it's a queen size bed today, as opposed to a rack, you know, a small single bed, which I had in basic SEAL training.

I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.

Musically, I just think in terms of what's next. There's a lot of things I've always dreamed of doing, and I hope I get to them before I get too deaf.

What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

It hurts me because of what he's doing to boxing. Because one of the most important world titles is at stake now. The champion has to defend it against the best.