When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years. When I was 40, nobody wanted me.

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.

If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last.

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.

Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.

In the name of a race you cannot find any dignity in the contemptability of your race.

Even an atheist finds God when they point at what they don't believe in.

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

You do not have to feel good to do good.

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.