Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.

In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.

I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.