Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.

I made it, Ma - Carnegie Hall. And I didn't have to practice.

A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!

You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.

Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

I said from the very beginning that I was looking for the best person, I had no doubt it was Roger Goodell.

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.

Every single movie that I've ever done has affected my life; I always feel more changed by a character than I affect them or change them, always. I mean, that's just kind of the way it is.

Simple, like uncarved wood.

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.

Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.

Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

I might not be famous one day. But I'd still be happy.