You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever.

This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.

Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

A lot of tight Senate races out there. Let's hit those chips with another dash of salsa, Ed Bradley.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

[My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

Go for your dreams and get lost to find yourself again and again.

It happens to us all. We drink too much, take one too many hits of acid, proposition the wrong prostitute and end up by the side of some freeway, disheveled and disoriented.

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

If you know me, you know I make every day count, I'm serious about my life.

You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.

This is just the loveliest news. I'm so happy for everybody involved, and so proud to have been part of the wonderful experience that Philomena has been.

Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down.

Serve many fruitlessly, If one repay, Th' ingratitude of thousands 'twill outweigh.

I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.