Effective leaders make it easy for people around them to tell the truth, to be candid and open.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.

I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

Acceptance of the bit happens in the haunches, not in the mouth.

I'm looking over rooftops, and I'm hoping it ain't true, that the same God looks out for them, looks out for me and you.

The Fiction defense. Sometimes I just need to use it.

It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode

My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

I know I'm not perfect & will never become. Yet, I'm proud of being Me, with all humility & imperfections. Cause this is the only life I have.

Invented the #hashtag.

I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.

A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.

Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.

Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'