If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it's a vacation destination for me. I say, 'Because I sometimes have perfect days there.'

Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.

People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.