If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.
People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
If a statesman is one who looks to the next generation and a politician one who looks to the next election, a political consultant must be one who looks to the next tracking poll.
I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.
The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
I point out the Democratic party won two world wars and beat the depression, cut out the poverty by two thirds, and was responsible for the same sustained prosperity that we've had in the United States. What the hell do we have to apologize for?
The only person that ever stumbles is a guy moving forward. You don't stumble backwards; you stumble forward, and you never stumble when you're stationary. So don't worry about stumbling. Keep pushing it forward.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
May 8th 1943. Deluge. The rain not only fell mainly on the plain in Spain; it also fell mainly on the back of the bloody neck, dripping down the spine into the socks where it came out of the lace-holes in the boots.
The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.
Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.
I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.
I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.
How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?
I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.
You fake something until you're good at it.
As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
