Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

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.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.

It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

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.'