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

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.

I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.