People

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs,
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes,
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Love, free as air at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for
the species of woman in whose company he finds
himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in
whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

We don't love qualities, we love persons;
sometimes by reason of their defects
as well as of their qualities.

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.

You get this real distorted image of what's actually happening when you're a celebrity. It's like a fun house mirror. I don't really have a connection with that. Here, I'm walking down the street, I'm their neighbor. I'm Dave.

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you!

I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds