I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.

It's no disgrace to be old. But damn if it isn't inconvenient.

Anytime you see me with my arms around an old man, I'm holding him for the police.

Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.

[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.

The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin' to 'em.

Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.