I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world's against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier to do, do it.

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself.

He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

Success is most often a matter of competing with yourself for what is important to you as an individual.

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.

When you're wondering whether she's his daughter or his girlfriend, she's his girlfriend.

Hello Kitty will never speak.

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.