Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.

When something is over, it is over.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

Life is about having a good time.

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.

We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and out, and that's why we set it there.

You are here to live your purpose not to please others. If they truly respect you they will respect your choices too.

What we find to love or to hate comes to us as a substitute for something else.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.

The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.