"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."

"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today."

"I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story."

"Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things."

"When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody."

"The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man."