I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.

I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.

The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.

I'm so thankful. I've been blessed. I never took it for granted.

Never abandon your calling or go outside your purpose

It takes a village to raise a child.

As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.

I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy.

Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity

We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for.

I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.