One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Responsibility is the ability to respond.