The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.

I made it, Ma - Carnegie Hall. And I didn't have to practice.

A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!

You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.

Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending, wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.

Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.

Christmas is about giving. Be outrageously generous. Have fun, enjoy the process....then keep it up all year.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

I would categorize my books as literature, and I hope that is how they would be consumed. The books do not rely on the artwork to be understood, but I need my art practice to write them.

So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.

Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.