Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.

I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.

I'm proud of being a vaudevillian, the last of my line. A lot of people think my entertainment is candy-floss. Well, entertainment is too aggressive these days, all 'in your face.'

I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.

I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said "I'll just print another ten.

My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world.

Can you comprehend everything in the four directions and still do nothing?

For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

No matter where you are now, whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

I think that if you go through life and no one hates you, then that means you're not good at anything

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

When it comes to fund managers and market strategists, this year's hero usually turns into next year's zero.