There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

To all things clergic I am allergic.

A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.

It was not feasible to lose time in making careful surveys or extensive preliminary studies of possible control methods

Freedom is the grace of free-will.

There's an old joke about a mother watching a column of soldiers pass by. Her son is in the ranks. All those men out of step, she says, except our Fred.

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

To grow, we need things that we do not have and cannot provide, and we need to have a source of those things who looks favorably upon us and who does things for us for our own good.

I'm supposed to be writing a book, and I can hardly read.

I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.

So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.