The show became its own little world, with its own internal rhythm and high standards.

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.

I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.

He wanted the show to be fresh to audiences 50 years down the line.

Something greater than me was happening. And yet, it was happening to me.

It wasn't work. I played myself.

We all need something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.

To forgive is a solemn tussle between love and hate

I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.

When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.

I've always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome.

I just love family meetings. Very cozy, with the Christmas garlands round the fireplace and a nice pot of tea and a detective from Scotland Yard ready to arrest you.

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.