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.

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

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.

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs.

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.

While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.

A thought will color a world for us.