I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

In some ways, what I need is a wife.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

Something that never happens anywhere at any time.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.

We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

There's one sure way to stop us from scoring ... give us the ball near the goal line.

Please remember that your greatest talent is so much more powerful than your biggest fear.