I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

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.

There's gratification in making somebody laugh. It's a wonderful sound. I find myself, to this day, doing it, wanting to make people laugh.

Wealth isn't about money. It's about options...and you always have options. Choose wisely. Live wealthy.

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

My father got me strong and straight and slim And I give thanks to him. My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet I kiss her feet.

My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.