Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you. Alan Alda on age
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. Alan Alda on anger
You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school. Alan Alda on business
I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me. Alan Alda on business
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change. Alan Alda on change
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head. Alan Alda on change
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. Alan Alda on famous
I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old. Alan Alda on home
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. Alan Alda on intelligence
I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me. Alan Alda on knowledge
If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money. Alan Alda on money
You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. Alan Alda on work