Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

I always told my team two things: Never expect them to give you anything and always expect them to make the next shot.

I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on.

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.

I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.

I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children.

All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.