I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to a vantage point to get a good perspective view at your future.

A person who does not believe in victory and who always doubts will never finish anything

There is no redemption in a cruel man's love.

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

Nobody has to lose for me to succeed and that is a unique job. Everybody wins, horse wins, people win, I win.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.

It’s simply doing what you’re supposed to do as well as you can when you’re supposed to do it.

It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.