My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.

I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.

I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them.

The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.

Once you're in, you're in. It's like the Mafia. Once a Monkee, always a Monkee.

I like tall girls because I like someone to look up to.

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.

Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

I only bet on what's dearest to a man's heart. Else there is no way to tell if he's bluffing. What a man is willing to risk or not to risk, that's a measure of his soul.

Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

Do not tell someone you are hungry if, whenever they feed you, you do not eat.

Some issues you just - you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don't have to denigrate others.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.

And books are such an empowering way to give voice to some of these kids who aren't yet ready to tell their story. Or don't know what their story is, or are trying to figure it out.

If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with; if you keep it out, it's not a goal.

How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.