There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

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 discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear.

Whatever you do not employ, you forfeit.

Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.

When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, smile. This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.

[Barack] Obama won two elections but certainly the first one not because people wanted that agenda of his. He never told them what his agenda was. Not as it played out. Obama was something other.

In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?