Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.

I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.

By [age] 93, I had shrunk quite a lot. My car was known as the Phantom Cadillac. People would see it whizzing by and they would swear there was no driver.

Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

At my age flowers scare me.

I did go to school - my kind of school. When I was a kid I went out ... and you meet people. You talk to them. Anybody says something that makes sense, it stays with you, rubs off on you. That kind of school.