I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

Only a few things are really important.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

Bench me or trade me.

For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.

Always dress like you're going to see your worst enemy.

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

Today's worries may become tomorrow's priceless experiences.

I love basketball and I'm committed to it, but if I have to lock up my spirit because of basketball, it ain't worth it.

They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye.