What destroys one man preserves another.
I've had the most amazing interviews, and I've done interviews that were so bad, I was embarrassed to be interviewed. I've seen both sides of the coin.
I've been booed off the field, and I've been carried off the field by people cheering me. So I've seen both ends of it, and I can tell you the bad side of it gets a lot more attention than the good side does, but the good side is pretty darned good when it's on your side.
I've had lots of commercial success. I've also had some terrible reviews and some wonderful reviews.
I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare.
The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.
I played on the 2001 team, the team that won the most games in the history of Major League Baseball and also I played on one of the worst teams of Major League Baseball.
The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.
I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.
On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!
I have made a career of flop films. And yet, 90 percent of my films are celebrated.
People will always make comparisons.
How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.
At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.
Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.
Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other worse, which is the greatest of differences that could possibly exist between them.
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.
The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.
Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results--the fragrance of celestial flowers--to the daily life of others.
I had bad days, and that means somebody else had a great day.
I know when I should get good and when I should get bad.
Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.
The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments.
We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.
