"My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust."

"He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out."

"We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology."

"The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book."

"Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts."

"Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife."

"I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking."

"Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning."