When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.

When something is over, it is over.

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

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.

The beauty of life lies in its Uncertainty.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?

It is the duty of a child to obey his parent.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.

But most days, I wander around feeling invisible. Like I'm a speck of dust floating in the air that can only be seen when a shaft of light hits it.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.