The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

If you put in the effort and focus towards a goal, you will get there quicker than most.

We often mistake letting go for giving up. Knowing the difference betweenthe two can make all the difference in the end.

If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.

O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!

I'm not interested in observed reality.

Everybody's vote should count equally in the United States.

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble.