Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

I feel as if I'm in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.

It means zero to be against greed.

My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.