"The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan."

"All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared."

"I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol."

"My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly."

"Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements."

"The only limit to human potential is the light of knowledge dispels the darkness of ignorance."

"It is a subtle truth that time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."