Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

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.

If you can weep with your words, the meaning of your heart can be written forever

In all your getting, get understanding. Proverbs paraphrased

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.

A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.

A great passion has no partner.

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.