You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

You make your own luck. Luck is the residue of design.

People would pay money to work at CNN

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

Someone once said, "I don't lie because then I don't have to remember anything." I've told white lies a lot. Sometimes when you tell stories you'll embellish them a little, especially with foxhole humor.

Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories