After three straight years of writing, though, I definitely needed a break to just go live my life.

Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.

The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool.

I'm big on being positive. I'm generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions.

The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.

I talk, watch TV, spout opinions, schmooze, negotiate, talk some more, play games, and have a little cocktail.

Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.

I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television.

I'm actually interested and enthusiastic. Even when I walk into a show not knowing much about my guest, I always come away as more of a fan or enthusiast.

Dreams are really boring, but every so often I threw in a doozy.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

He’d never met a parent who wanted so desperately to pursue and exact revenge, nor one who seemed quite so capable of doing just that.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.

I think NATO as a concept is good, but it is not as good as it was when it first evolved. And I think we bear the, you know, not only financially, we bear the biggest brunt of it.

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than the absolutely correct one.

The only people without problems are in cemeteries. If you don't have problems, get on your knees and pray.