The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

If you fall down, get up and walk again. If you can't walk, crawl. If that idea fails, have another one It doesn't happen by accident. It takes a lot of hard work.

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

Success is finding something you love to do, getting paid to do it and finding someone to share it with.

Age ain't got nothing to do with how old you are.

Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there.

The problem is when you try to impose today's standards on people living back then. It's the politically correct thing to do, but it was a different era, a different country then.

I don't make culture. I sell it.

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

I wish many things, but I wish I had been able to tell you that I love you, in so many more ways than that word can convey in Alben.

To hell with you all, I DO believe

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.

To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the bridge.

Relationships are kind of like riding a bull. You hang on for dear life and sometimes you get a little buck here and there ... but you get back on.

The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet.

A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.