I don't want to find the secret. I'm afraid all the joy will go out of it if I find the secret.

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.

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

These stories always take us to some far away places which we can never visit in real life.

It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due

Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Donald Trump is misogynist and a racist; he is thin-skinned and beyond unqualified to be president.

The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man.