I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

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.

Choose your audience wisely, for its not your performance that varies but their response is what matters!

I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.

Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

Always tell the truth and be true.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day.

Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

When I'm killed, don't think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good. And there's one thing that I know well, I'm damned if I'll be damned to Hell!

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.