Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.

I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.

In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!

Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.

The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.

I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.

I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors.

In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had is winning, and that's ridiculous.

Perhaps," he said, "we should discuss our arrangements, then.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living.

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they're brilliant at writing jokes, and I'm not.

I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.