The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.

The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.

If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.

I was never really a big presence in the home.

I will never be cynical again about people.

She says that I wore some pretty sexy leather pants to that first meeting, but I don't remember.

The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.

I live more than anything else to produce the Games.

The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

Debts are like children the smaller they are the more noise they make.

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.

I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

If U.S. focuses on truth and justice, we'll realize that Israel has been there for 3,000 years - the same language, the same people, the same culture for 3,000 years - and it's always astonishing to me that we somehow now think that they're the occupiers.

It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement.

I always encourage people in the early parts of their career to focus on writing. If you can communicate clearly, if you can articulate a thought, if you can write a great story, then you're going to be successful.

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

I can only speak for particle physics. But it has become obvious that on the experimental side, there has been a huge evolution in the number of people who have to collaborate because of the gigantic size of the instruments used, but also because of the enormous task that is data analysis.

I've smashed myself around, been on crutches, and broken a couple of bones when I was a kid.

There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

In California, the lines on the road are just a suggestion. They're in the left lane with the left indicator on, so naturally it's time to turn right! Are you kidding me? In your Prius? I know, you're saving the Earth by trying to kill the people!

Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens.

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place.

You're not always able to choose.

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated mistakes are tolerated communication is open and rules are flexible the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.