"I would think of my mind as being a blackboard full of messages, most of them urgent, and I practiced imagining a hand with an eraser wiping that blackboard clean. I made my mind completely blank."

"I'm not a follower. I'm a leader."

"I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night."

"I never saw a man who was good at anything who was not also a hard worker."

"I've always tried to be a fair person."