Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

I like to bring some hydrating face oils and de-puffing eye patches in case I get puffy on the flight. I also always am sure to travel with my own silk eye mask; it's so necessary when trying to sleep on flights.

On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

Consumers don't need to be forced to pay billions for so-called smart technology to know how to reduce their utility bills. We know to turn down the heat or air conditioning and shut off the lights.

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

Yes, sports are very often very boring, which is good and necessary: If games were one long highlight, we wouldn't have any highlights at all.

On flights, I cannot travel economy class, as I am too huge to fit into that space. I always have to travel business class.

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

I used to cry on planes. I don't anymore. It probably took almost a hundred agonizing flights to get there. Now, when I take off, a smile quivers on the corner of my lips.

Smile. It instantly lifts the face, and it just lights up the room.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

For myself, anyway, I think that recurring has been such a gift, because I've been able to work on a lot of shows that I've really had a lot of respect for before I went in, shows like 'Friday Night Lights' and 'Nip/Tuck,' for example.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.