So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

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.

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

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.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

Church words are easy to say, but they're not so easy to live by.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.

You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.

Mountains are where heaven meets earth.

Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.

Music kept me sane. I love music too much. I'm too passionate about music to let anything or anyone come in between me and my love.

You just cant predict baseball

Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this.