The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.

I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.

You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.

Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but... in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

It's well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being re-discovered with great excitement.

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

I've been broke, and I've been in debt, and broke is better.

Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related.

Love is two minds without a single thought.

The excruciating moments of drama are when people are allowed to show or say what they feel.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.