Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

A great ox stands on my tongue.

What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.

Consistency is one of the hallmarks of my career. You knew what you were going to get out of E-Smith every game, every year, no matter if I was 22, 21 or 35 years old.

Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.

What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.