Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.

Just because I didn't do what you told me, doesn't mean I wasn't listening to you!

No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.

You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.

Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.

When you learn to love yourself, you will no longer tolerate mistreatment of any kind. Not from him. Not from her. And not from YOU.

Every layer of complexity creates greater distance from life’s simple truths.

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

The great minds approaching understanding will admit they continually gain more questions and less answers.

Nobody is lost until somebody has given up.

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.

I have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music.

One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.

I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.