I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.

Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

I think I'm damn lucky. I'm lucky that my kids are all straight, that they haven't ended up in jail, that they're all worthwhile human beings, thank God. Their lives are happy; they have happy partners, wives, husbands.

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.