The complete control of one party over everything - I would, I think, feel the same way if it were [the Democrats in charge]. It's not the American way.

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.

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don’t care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal.

You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

We have to show the world that not all of us are like him. Otherwise, this will always be Hitler's Germany.

At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]

I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up.

The source of now is here.

So what if I cant spell Armageddon, its not the end of the world.