When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.

I've learned... that everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.

My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.

I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?