Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.

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.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

You attract poverty when you lack value for time

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box.

Keep the faith and be hopeful for the future.Our best life are ahead of us.

The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.

People have to do what they want to do.

I have to be ahead of myself so I don't just fit into the realm of everybody who sounds like me.

I guess I do a really good job at covering.

If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.