"You're awake, you're awesome. Live like it."

“If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.”

“I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.”

“Take a quick dip, relax with a schnapps and a sandwich, stretch out, have a smoke, take a nap or just rest, and then sit around and chat until three. Then I hunt some more until sundown, bathe again, put on white tie and tails to keep up appearances, eat a huge dinner, smoke a cigar and sleep like a log until the sun comes up again to redden the eastern sky. This is living…. Could it be more perfect?”

“You realize just how long youve been away when you get home and start dialing 8 out of habit so you can get access to local calls.”

“...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.”

“I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all.”

Source : 1992 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 19 August 1992, Houston, TX

“When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.”

“For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.”