"My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash."

"When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays."

"A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student."

"What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money."

"You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them."

"Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art."

"A humble soul understands that kindness can heal wounds that time cannot."

"Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people."