Born on July 30th

"In the field of resilience & focus, we are not defined by the weight of our struggles, but by the strength we find when we rise."

"Like a lighthouse in the storm, your inner resolve must remain steady and bright. As a historical figure, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"The hardest trials do not consume the gold; they refine the spirit and clear the path ahead."

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."

"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."

"It is better to be a has-been than a never-was."

"Expenditures rise to meet income."

"The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."

"Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married."

"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom."

"A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn."

"Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse."

"The smaller the function, the greater the management."

"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."

"When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body."

"The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take."

"In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want."

"The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself."

"Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."

"Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich."

"I even got invited to a 'Star Trek' sea cruise. That was pretty exciting."

"I never wanted to be an actor. It was just something that happened."

"Many times, people would react to the fact that I looked different, and I would think that there was something wrong with me - that maybe one of my shirt buttons was undone or something. It took 20 or 30 years to get used to it."

"Even before the movie was made, people already thought I was the original Lurch."

"Our culture is so inundated with Freudian prototypes, and I think that 'Twin Peaks' came up with a whole new Pandora's Box of outlandishly mental, out of balance people that have never been described or have been noted by the psychiatric community."

"I was just picked from the streets to do some acting, and that's how I got started."

"The wonderful thing about 'Star Trek' is that they're very open to suggestions for scripts and story ideas from the viewers. That's really unique."

"I get to play a lot of butler-chauffeurs."

"Star Trek' always had a pretty serious atmosphere, but with 'Twin Peaks,' you walked onto the set and you had the feeling that everybody was walking around in a trance."

"I think everybody is intimidated by Jack Nicholson. But he was really nice to work with."