I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.

I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.

It takes very little to govern good people.

The essential attributes of a great leader are a positive attitude, humility, and gratitude.

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial.

Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on.

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.

Wander a whole summer if you can. Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.

Movies are - all I've found is that they're just tougher and tougher to make.

Spread love, it's the Brooklyn way.

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.