That's the best thing that's ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives.

I tell you one thing that makes me feel I haven't wasted my life, and that is I've got some grandchildren. You can't overestimate the kind of opening to the future that gives a person, I think.

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.