Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.
For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, "I guess you're so big we bore you now. "
The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.
May you have the income of a Republican and the sex life of a Democrat!
According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives.
It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
And so the greatest of American triumphs. . . became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.
Whenever I throw caution to the wind I make sure I'm facing the right way so that it doesn't blow back and hit me in my face.