The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.

It's a lot better to hope than not to.

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.