Success is how you collect your minutes.

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.

People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg

I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.

You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown?

If employees aren't satisfied, they won't promote the product we need.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.

On Hollywood turning its back on him: I wasn't in the club. You see, I'm not going to be a stroker. I never have been all my life.

There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy.

I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.

The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.