When I open a refrigerator door and the light goes on, I want to perform.

I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Dont retire - inspire...Theres a lot to be done

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft.

I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.

I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.

Life is an infiltration course. We all try and get through it. We all try and get through it unscathed - maybe not hurt, not bruised. No bones broken, maybe a few hearts here and there.

And that's the way I have always lived, for the laughs – today. N-O-W. No Other Way.

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

A crossbow?” Pigeon asked.I left my battle-ax in my other jeans, ” the man said.

W might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart.

When you have everything in life, you have friends, when you have nothing, you have true friends. The fact that somebody is close to you does mean they are your friend. Be wise!

All's well so long-as you don't get shot in the hind end with a twenty gauge.

You can inform the people you love of what you want for them but you cannot transform them into living it out.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.

How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.