If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

When something is over, it is over.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

Life is about having a good time.

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.

Suicide is the night train, speeding your way to darkness.

It was so bad, it was worth more than we paid.

Let your heart dance with pen and paperNow fill the paper with dancing letters.

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

I think God is the most fantastic designer.