Alan Alda

“I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.”

“It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.”

“I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.”

“What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.”

“It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.”

“Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.”

“Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.”

“I fix my grandchildren's computers.”

“Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.”