When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

We should never judge a day by its weather.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.

I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.

Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults.

People think I'm talking like I'm in perfect health, but I have all the infirmities for my age. I have arthritis and all those things. But if you keep moving, that won't bother you.

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

Very often people have a very limited way of thinking.

Those who feel the pain of others are the most eligible for all joy of the world, unfortunately this rule is too corrupt.

You've already said you were going to kill me, " Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny.

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

I don't see the point of being an actor and doing the same thing, all the time. Where's the challenge there?

People will love you and support you when it's beneficial.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.