Reporters may be friendly-but if you get through life without having a reporter as a friend, that may be an advantage. If you insist on having one as a friend, don't do interviews with him.

The thing you always have to remember is, you look at people and they might look like a failure but there's often a narrow thing they do very well.

I think it's unrealistic to believe that somewhere in outer space two big rocks crashed together with a bang and now I have a wonderful family, freedom, and opportunity." We're gathered here with love and fellowship and friends. You can bang rocks together all you want; you cannot create what we have here. Maybe God can create life from big bangs, but rocks can't.

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

I would advise people occasionally to take the media on, but only when you know it's a manufactured product and not a news interview.

To be successful, you've got to get the kind of torque that's created by a push and a pull.

Show me a man or woman with a mission, and I'll show you somebody that's tougher to beat.