"This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two."

"I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left."

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

"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."

"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

"The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time."

"When I was a child, my mom told me: 'If you want to be a soldier, you'll become a general. If you want to be a monk, you'll become pope' I wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso."

"I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures..."

"Dare to be yourself."

"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."

"To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."