My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, “You know, I brought you in this world, and I can take you out. And it don't make no difference to me, I'll make another one look just like you.

Mediocre people are the most dangerous people in the world.

Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time!

You can't be everything to everyone

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

Your parents put a curse on you - Someday your kids are going to act just like you.

And so the dentist says 'Rinse.' So you lean over, and you're lookin' at this miniature toilet bowl.