In my 90-plus years, I have lived a multitude of lives.

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.

But you can not buy what doesn't belong to you.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now.

Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.

Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.

I'm tired of being considered property.

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.

A person all wrapped up in themselves makes for a mighty small package.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.