It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.

The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.

There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.

A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it.

It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.