Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Dont retire - inspire...Theres a lot to be done

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft.

I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.

I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.

Life is an infiltration course. We all try and get through it. We all try and get through it unscathed - maybe not hurt, not bruised. No bones broken, maybe a few hearts here and there.

And that's the way I have always lived, for the laughs – today. N-O-W. No Other Way.

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

May your heart overflows with exceeding joy.

Communism, ” I observed, “is a pile of wank.

Opera in English is in the main just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

I wasn't picked for any of the sports teams at school because I was half the size of everyone else, but now everyone assumes I must have been some sort of rugby player.

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself.

A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.

I'd rather be like Odysseus than someone who was handed everything.

Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom.