We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

When something is over, it is over.

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.

We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and out, and that's why we set it there.

We are forgetting to live in this world because we are always getting ready to live in the next world.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.

The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you, Opens a door through which you see dark dreams.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

That's pretty hot," he said. "Punching me in the eye?" "Well, no. Of course not. I meant the idea of getting rough with you is hot. I'm a big fan of full-contact sports." "I'm sure you are.

The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.