“I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.”

I’ve been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.

A guy walks into a psychologist’s convention with a banana in his pocket.When asked about the significance of this he says;well,they were all out of grapes.

You shouldn’t get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

Funny is funny is funny.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

All I can say about life is “Oh God, enjoy it.

There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I’ll cry.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don’t necessarily want to be alive.

When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.

If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.

Be a voice not an echo.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.