I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.

When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.

Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

I have nothing against women. As a matter of fact there's something about them that I love, but I just can't put my finger on it.

You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.