To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.