If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about.

If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view.

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

And don't confound the language of the nation with long-tail'd words in osity and ation.

Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

Hate knows that love is the cure.