It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better imitation is not discipleship.

I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk and I began to write. The result for better or for worse is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning you better see if you can locate that check.

The security comes as an actor in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career or how people perceive you you'll make yourself unhappy because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off to think 'There's nothing I can do.'

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves you know to put other people down or make fun of them or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

After all it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them it had better be life.

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else and if you really work hard you might get lucky and get what you want.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact than the richest without meaning.