What am I grateful for? Aside from my own great life, you mean? I'm just grateful that my wife, and daughter, and dogs are all healthy.

If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.

The truth will set you free...unless you want to know the truth about who killed JFK.

Anybody who thinks there's not a vast right-wing conspiracy in this country must also think that Ken Starr should be our next ambassador to Luxembourg.

I've known Chevy Chase for so long, I actually knew him when he was funny!

It's this patronizing thing that people have about if you're against the war everyone's lumped together. You know, the soldiers are not scholars, they're not war experts.

Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.

Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.

Vegas changed people, creating monsters and broken men. It was easy to let the lights and stolen dreams seep into your blood.

I could impart excitement, but not urgency. – Francis Chen

Connectedness. One thing leads to another. Often in unexpected ways.

Magic is at the core of myths.

Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.

I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure.

It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.

If you have to cry, it's okay. I'll cry with you.

Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.

In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love.