As an actor, you generally want to see the other actor's face.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.

If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

He speaks truly who speaks the shade.

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.

Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.