The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.

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.

These empty pages are your future, soon to become your past. They will read the most personal tale you shall ever find in a book.

I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.

All statutes to the contrary are revoked.

I wish that a conscious sense of peace and a feeling of human solidarity would develop in all peoples.

By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.

Good things come to those who initiate.