I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.

The wages of pedantry is pain.

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the poet's words to their logical or grammatical connotations.

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.

The transcendent experience is common to every culture in the world.

We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.

Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?

We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

It doesn't embarrass me one bit to let you know that I believe Adam and Eve were real people.

In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough.

It takes years and years, usually a decade, to create a great startup.