“I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.”

“when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.”

“my life has been wonderful. I have done what I felt like. I was given courage and I was given adventure and that has carried me along. And then also a sense of humor and a little bit of common sense. It has been a very rich life.”

“It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.”

“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”

“A little integrity is better than any career.”

“Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.”

“At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!”