It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

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.

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.

Thinking can change through the pronunciation of the word of God in your life, because it contains enough strength and energy to change your sub-consciousness

I will not play it safe! I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life. I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

I sprung you because I've got a message for you" "doesn't your family own a cell phone company?" "only a little one

Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born

It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage; die or kill.

I've always had a passion for rap, and I might not be the greatest rapper, but I'm better than half of them out there.