"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

"Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age."

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

"[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home."

"In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. "

"The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty."

"Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love."

"Without discipline, there's no life at all."

"People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick."

"I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known."

"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient."

"Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance."