I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy!

You have the RIGHT to change your mind

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.

It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be.