The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the leader is a servant.

In the business world everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday my first check went straight to the bank.

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why on this day of all days I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first and end by eating all.

I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

Contrary to general belief I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best they are merely the people who got there first.