You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

I think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition of God starts.

I guess the story that best defines us [with Bud Yorkin] and our relationship goes back to the [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis show. The four stage managers on that show became major TV creators and directors - John Rich, Jack Smight, Arthur Penn and Bud Yorkin.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.

I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.

Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.