My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.

I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that.

I think it's important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that.