Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or waitresses to ask for autographs.

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!

Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.

In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.

Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

The highest duty is to respect authority.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

You've got to be a believer in what you do.

Knowledge gives a wider choice and more anguish.