There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down simply by spending his money somewhere else.

If there is anything that a man can do well I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work and learning from failure.

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there.

We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour no 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle' because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think 'Ooh a movie star's birthday!' I just thought 'What?'

One I built when I was a kid and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.