Some people never change their mind through their whole lives, about anything, despite new information that comes in. And now that we know that homosexuality is not a choice, it's biological, I think we have to love and understand them.

The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.

I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

I would love to be Moses.