I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

Concentration is the doorway through which the meditative state becomes available.

Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there.

Unlike people, God will never turn His back on you. Trust in Him with all your heart, and you will never have to worry about being betrayed.

Redemption is won in the light, but is wrought in the darkness.

The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

Steep yourself in your subject, work like hell, and love, honor and obey your hunches.

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

Every girl has something beautiful in her soul. It doesn't matter if she's fat or thin. That has nothing to do with her personality.