Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?

You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer

The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

Failure is often our best teacher not the success.

I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

I'm about to be shot 150 feet up in the air. I feel queasy!

It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research.

To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.

Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

You won't find average Americans on the left or on the right. You'll find them at Kmart.