Making people laugh was automatic.

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

I always told my mother I wanted a job where I could have a lot of fun and have a lot of time off. She asked me where I was going to find that, and I said, 'I don't know, but it's out there.

I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.

I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood.

I'm proud to be from Philadelphia.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

You can use the stumbling blocks to build your success.

Look for a miracle in every encounter.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.

The more challenges life deals us, the more scars experiences give us, the higher we go, the better we get.

I realized how hard it that must have been, how much hurt when you know the only way to help someone is to give him distance. So I let him go.

Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.

It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.