"Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years."

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."

"If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age."

"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it."

"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."

"Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all."

"Moral victories don't count."

"Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

"Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts..."

"Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters."

"Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty."