I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.

I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.

I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension.

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.

Now I won't have to worry about the new series making it or not.

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.

Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.

I believe that there is God in all of us.

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.

I think all of us create our own miracles.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone.

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

I dont mind dying if I have to but Im damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. Im sorry.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.

Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path.

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

No, I don't have any problems leaving disappointments behind. I've had lots of good days at golf and a few disappointments, so you never know what's around the corner.

I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.

I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.