I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

We are even better looking on the small screen

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

I shave without using shaving cream.

Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.

My father and mother. I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.

I ask myself why I do it [work]. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

I've got a prostate the size of a honeydew and a head full of bad memories.

There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't the old days when everybody sat around and drank beer.

The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

It's hard and continuous dedication that brings lasting results.

To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones.

My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor.

The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.

When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.