Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?

Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.

You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.

I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

Court... a place where they dispense with justice.

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.

I have never lost an election yet. I am a winner. Let's just say that.

What we know is far less important than what we use.

Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves.

The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.