For those who understand, no explaination is needed...For those who don't, none will do.

I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.

The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.

I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.

If you think childlike, you'll stay young. If you keep your energy going, and do everything with a little flair, you're gunna stay young. But most people do things without energy, and they atrophy their mind as well as their body. You have to think young, you have to laugh a lot, and you have to have good feelings for everyone in the world, because if you don't, it's going to come inside, your own poison, and it's over.

You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.

(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life.