When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I’m my own company.

True friends are families which you can select.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... All of which I've earned a living doing.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.