Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home front. My father did not care a whit whether I liked him, and it would have been unthinkable for him to pick up my stuff. There were rules in the house, and they were enforced.

As a kid, I know that most of my parents' friends were because my mom made friends with them, and my dad went along. I know a lot of dads who do that. I think it just starts to happen with guys. In the case of my father, he was probably just too busy reading books about Titanic.