In Hollywood, it's hard to be funny, because all the big jokes are in Washington.

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick.

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve.

If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.

Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.

But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.

That’s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too.

I'm over dudes trying to look like they're in boy bands.

I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

I have learned there is a gift wrapped inside of every adversity and, if you have faith and hope, you can lose everything and still survive.