"I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect."

"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."

"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples."

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

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

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

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

"Concern should drive us into action and not into depression."

"I gotta be me."

"Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person."

"Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price."

"'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."