Character is forged not on the mountaintop but in the valley.

Nothing worth doing right is easy.

I believe that the time to start thinking about your legacy is not at the end but at the beginning, because as I said, that's when you're able to do something about it.

I'm a believer that some messages are not meant to be shared publicly. They're meant to stay inside the clubhouse.

We seek out other people to fight off the loneliness but it's like we're children playing at pretend. We are alone in everything we do, Livy. Alone but not without company.

Vanity dies hard, in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

The best way to be thankful for the gift of life is to not throw it away.

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.

She really did like me, the idiot.

When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.

I grew up with brothers. Girls terrified me.