"Every child is a gifted child."

“Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by Hitler's strictly vegetarian diet.”

“Put faith in one who's had experience.”

“My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.”

Source : Dan Marino, Marc Serota, Mark Vancil (1996). “Marino: on the record”, Collins Pub San Francisco

“I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker.”

“Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.”

“When you've had children, your body changes; there's history to it. I like the evolution of that history; I'm fortunate to be with somebody who likes the evolution of that history. I think it's important to not eradicate it. I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person.... You're certainly not staving off the inevitable. And if you're doing it out of fear, that fear's still going to be seen through your eyes. The windows to your soul, they say.”

“There are two ways of extending life : firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another... The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 22, 1799.

“Basketball is always a piece of my life, but never the centerpiece.”