Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.

Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish.

If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.

When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.

...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.