After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.

Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.

Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.