Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about... If you want to get along, go along.

There's no education in the second kick of a mule

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't.

If you want to get along, go along.

In my heart, poetry screams, “I exist!

We have no rational evidence that there exits another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.

If I've learned anything this trip, it's that you have to take responsibility for what you don't do, as well as what you do.

If we never had any storms, we couldn't appreciate the sunshine.

The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.

You don't know the plant until you've killed it. Then you've learned something.

That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck.

When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.

Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!

The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game.