The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

I never laugh until I've had my coffee.

I am intrigued by glamorous women ... A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to.

When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.

I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness.

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.

No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place.

It's a good thing wrinkles don't start 'til you're 50ish. So, wrinkles, then Happy 60th, and then Just think, you'll be 70 In just those short years, numbering ten

We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the living heart.

We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes; Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes.

What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.