The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.
I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.
Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.
I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.
The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.