I still think people will find out that I’m really not very talented. I’m really not very good. It’s all been a big sham.

I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.

It's simple. Eat well, exercise and get lots of sleep but make sure you indulge occasionally. At my age , I think , what the hell , and eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut !

I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bright side rather than the dark sida all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.

You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

I find the less you focus on your flaws, the better off you are. Be yourself and be glad of who you are.

Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you.

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.

Why having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mice?

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

You play to win the game...Hello. You play to win the game.

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.

The quality of our lives depends not on whether or not we have conflicts, but on how we respond to them.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.