Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have. I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

Housewives spend more money than their husbands make, so that other people think their husbands earn more money than they really do.

You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.

An unemployed jester is nobody's fool.