I have no regrets about anything that I've ever done, about whom I've been involved with, so forth and so on.

As I always say, 'Not always right, but never in doubt.'

The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.

How well that human potential has been fulfilled over the years by people with a deep and abiding connection to Pennsylvania.

When darkness falls, beauty is lit from within.

To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.

But I like to swim. At high school, I tried out for the swim team. I shaved off all my body hair, and that extra burst of speed from all the bullies shouting Kill the fairy.

It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

Never pursue literature as a trade.