No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.

Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers.

I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it.

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

Universities charge outrageous prices instead of dipping into their own massive funding.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

Don't get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Theres 3 things you need to remember in boxing, work hard, work harder, and work hardest

Whatever happens, happens.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.