I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

No matter how often I tell people I'm thirty-nine some of them refuse to believe I'm that old.

A rich man is one who isn't afraid to ask the salesperson to show him something cheaper.

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

I went to a meeting for premature ejactulators. I left early.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God.

My eye sees sacred things.

What is important may or may not be important but what is thought to be important is indeed important.

If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

When the Queen says 'well done,' it means so much.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.