It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.

The secret of longevity... Is to keep breathing!

I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that is real in the lives of millions of people.

The key to longevity: keep breathing.

I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

The secret to longevity is to keep breathing.

Keep breathing.

Success ... depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

Where am I going?- this is the question of your birth purpose on the earth

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure.

I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people.

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.

The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.