I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.

We should never judge a day by its weather.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.

I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.

Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults.

People think I'm talking like I'm in perfect health, but I have all the infirmities for my age. I have arthritis and all those things. But if you keep moving, that won't bother you.

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning

I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

We are entertainers. We have to give our audience a good time. If my name serves that purpose, if that brings a smile on your face, then I think it is good and my job has been done.

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

Everyone has to remember, I've always said that soccer is my number-one sport.

If there were 1,000 ways to God we would want 1,001.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

Everything that we criticize young actresses for, they're supposed to do because that's when we're supposed to make mistakes. And find out who we are.

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.