Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.

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

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.

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