The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.
What I like most about cigars is simply sitting and talking with other men… Some of the best conversations I’ve ever had with men have been over a cigar.
Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.
Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.
Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible. . . he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.
I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the audience is used to seeing me on 'Saturday Night Live,' and 'K-9,' and 'Curly Sue' and of course, 'According to Jim. ' I think that my comedies have been the most popular.
In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses. . . the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.
How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!
Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and as yourself, "How can I make this person want to do it?