I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.

But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.

I was in the De Witt Clinton Hight School marching band. One of the worst bands ever formed. When we played the national anthem, people from every country stood - except Americans.

In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely by wallpapering and eating artichokes

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

Fear is the greatest salesman.

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.

I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition.

The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

You show true friends the ugly--and trust them enough to turn it into something beautiful.

The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law!

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.

It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.

The truth taught by Jesus Christ is the right way to live.

Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?

I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, "When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.

This is my life, and I want to live it and enjoy it if I can.