Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

The greatest obstacles I ever had to overcome had been my own insecurities.

Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race

A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.

I love to win, honestly. ... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.

Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.

Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.