The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.

Dare to be more than ordinary... Dare to be extraordinary.

Think before you eat.

There are dark and alone times when you move forward to pursue your own journey, but the beauty in the light at the end of the tunnel is worth every sacrifice you thought you made.

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking. My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

The distance between yourself and another person is the same as the distance between yourself and yourself.

I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.

I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.