Despite what The Wall Street Journal says, our awards are the best-kept secret in America, with the possible exception of what George W. Bush did in the '70s.

Change is such hard work.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

It is better to look good than to feel good.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

If you're born to be hanged you'll never be drowned.

She is a jewel far richer than a mountain of coin could bring!

To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.

Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

I'm pretty confident in who I am. I know that for parents everywhere, it's my job to be a role model, and I'm going to do the best I possibly can.

You can be great just by being yourself.

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.