"I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive."

"That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming."

"In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators."

"Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies."

"Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails."

"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."

"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."

"But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people."