"I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing."

"All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice."

"On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away."

"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."

"In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously."

"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."

"That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in."

"If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want."