The wages of pedantry is pain.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul!

Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them know how it's going.

Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had.

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

What the Depression teaches us is that when the economy is so depressed that even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, you have to put conventional notions of prudence and sound policy aside.

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.