People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Hard work is never a punishment. If you see it so, you may not do it with the right attitude.

Hold on to those who are your true friends.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.

Bosons love to come together; fermions can't stand each other

Health and an able body are two jewels.

Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.