My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.
I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.
McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.
Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.
Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?
The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.
Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role.
No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
Jesus was humble when He walked this earth. He had all power, yet used all meekness.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn't get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.
Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived.
