This thing in society that you have to be a stick will always be in my mind, but that's just something I have to deal with.

A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.

There were also other things, but this was a big factor. It's sad, because she [Eve Plumb] was my best friend. We went through a lot together.

If you aren't going to do something all the way, don't do it.

Stars now also have problems with drugs, and it can be even harder being so out in the public eye - it's hard for them to keep their sanity and normal self present, but they can do it.

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

If you have a problem, try to get help, you can get through it if you get help.

As soon as I hear the word "competition" I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.

Toby Keith, when you wake up tomorrow there's still going to be liberals in the world, mexicans and blacks, Muslims and Jews and high school graduates...and everyone else who hates your music.

I remember only images, snapshots burned into me, bleeding into each other until I no longer knew the order in which they had happen.

The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it's so unimaginably immediate.

You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.

Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers.

Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.

At the end of the day, the only things that are shovel ready around here are the words coming out of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's mouth.

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.