Ability is of little account without opportunity.

The more things you do, the more things you can do.

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

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.

There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

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