You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

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.

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.

Life is an offensive directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

I love the fact that the present is the only real reality we have.

When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.