Believe me, you don't walk away from the kind of money you make with a daily television show. You might get awful tired of it sometimes, but take a second look at the check and you get less tired right away.

Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

I can't say I ever wanted to become an entertainer. I already was one, sort of-around the house, at school, doing my magic tricks, throwing my voice and doing Popeye impersonations. People thought I was funny; so I kind of took entertaining for granted It was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.

I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.

Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead. And, unlike communism, democracy does not mean having just one ineffective political party; it means having two ineffective political parties.

If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace.