Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.

On the whole I woke up in the morning and was happy to be alive.

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.