Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.

TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.

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

In my 90-plus years, I have lived a multitude of lives.

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 wish I knew how we achieve the goal of world peace. My bumper sticker reads 'Just Another Version of You.' The sooner we agree that we're just other versions of each other - we human beings - the sooner we will find some sense of world peace.

'All in the Family' took ten weeks to take off in 1971, and we were lucky to start in January, because if it had started in the regular fall season of 1970, I don't know if we would have lasted. The ratings didn't take off until the end of that fall season, when the other two networks ran out of fresh shows.