We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality.

I've served in 25 nations. I've seen where people don't trust their government. We're there. In the military, the last option is to send in the SEALs.

I have to get better, but I can't change the way I play.

It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.

You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!

I'm an easy person to get along with. Even when I struggle, I have the same attitude.

Sometimes I'll leave the house and go to a delicatessen down the street from me - it's been there a million years - just because I can look at people.

I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived.

I'm a huge fan of the Ken Burns documentary style, big time. I love documentaries full stop. I'm a big documentary fan. That's my reality. I don't like reality TV. I like it like that.

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.