"What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can - don't disappoint him."

“Never say the number because it suggest that you are unable to pronounce the name of the wine you are ordering.”

Source : Stephen Potter (1962). “Three-upmanship: The theory & practice of gamesmanship: Some notes on lifemanship [and] One-upmanship”

“Augie: Does everybody else know? T.C.: About my epitaph? Augie: About me being gay, you gink-head hoser-face! T.C. Not everybody. There's a night watchman at a Dunkin Donuts just outside of Detroit. He doesn't know yet.”

“Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.”

“...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that.”

“Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.”

“We don't earn God's love; we receive it. We don't work for His approval; He approves us.”

“I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.”

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”