If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.
Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
I was cable when cable wasn’t cool.
Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.
I’m just a socialist at heart.
Once you decide to do something, and you’re pretty sure you’re right, then you gotta go ahead and do it. Because if you piddle around, somebody else will beat you to it.
I’d rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.
I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
I’ve always tried to do the smartest and best thing.
Make a way, find a way or get out of the way.
Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
If you never quit, you’re never beaten.
If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn’t own anything. My wife’s a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven’t sold them.
If you panic that’s a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
Life is like a B-movie. You don’t want to leave in the middle of it, but you don’t want to see it again.
Be sure to set your goals so high that you can’t possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you’ll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I’m having a hard time coming up with new ones.
It was now the fall of 1956, and nine years after entering Georgia Military Academy as a scrawny “Yankee” from Ohio, I was now considered a “southerner,” enrolling at one of the North’s most elite institutions.
They weren’t drunk – they were just being loud. I was trying out for the football team and needed to get some sleep. One night I’d finally had enough and when Ted ran by my open window I reached out, grabbed him by the throat, and pulled him halfway into my room. I said, “Hey, what the hell’s the matter with you?
During my first several days there I really did feel like a fish out of water. After years of following a military dress code I wasn’t even sure what to wear. The one place I felt like I fit in was out on a boat and, fortunately, trials for the freshman sailing team began right away.