Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'

When something is over, it is over.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

Life is about having a good time.

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.

Think about someone, such as a teacher who may have inspired you. Their care and love must have shone through. That is the reason to follow those who set a good example of life.

Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

I want to be a mouse in a mousehole.

Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.

Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.

We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it.

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

You don’t knock on the devil’s door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)