Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

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.

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.

Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round".

An educator...a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself.

Be fully awake in the sacred moment.

Kiss me back into place and remind me why we can't be together.

Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.

There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.

Less is more, unless you're Al Gore.

It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.