Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

We had to have a star each week.. Possibly our program being on Sunday and having a little fun with the Bible was dangerous.

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

Tell me, who in this life, were never guided in course of their realization of their goal?

Could anyone fully understand the wonders of how a baby develops in the womb of a woman? This is the mystery about birth. Birth is by divine power of God.

Mundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.

The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the US Senate.

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.

The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star.

There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment.

Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!