When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.

Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life's way of preparing you for success.

There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.

Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.

I just had a baby girl. My daughter weighed 27 pounds. She was 3 years old. She was delivered to me by way of the court system and a blood test.

And now for something completely different...

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.

Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

I like to remind myself that everything is meaningless.