It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

The universe is like a pension plan. It will match your investment.

I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.

I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

Maybe that was what growing up was, understanding where the real magic lived in this world. Inside our very own hearts.

Every beginning is hard.

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

Any officer can get by on his sergeants. To be a sergeant you have to know your stuff. I'd rather be an outstanding sergeant than just another officer.

The land wants you here. I want you here," you called. "Don't you care about that at all?

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

I may be good for nothing, but I'm never bad for nothing.