The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.

We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.

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.

Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.