The learning process continues until the day you die..

You have not learned to live until you have learned to give.

Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free..

I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who's a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were not successful, so I dec….

I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to ….

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody..

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor..

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive.

Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that way for about ten years. When….

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail..

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things..

A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. ….

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more..

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to liv….

Now, why is it that most of us can talk openly about the illnesses of our bodies, but when it comes to our brain and illnesses of the mind we clam up….

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right..

I'm concerned that the world is a mess. That's why when I wrote my last book, Let's Face It, I dedicated it to the younger generation because, let's ….

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty..

"Hail to the Chief" was played, and the President got up and made a gracious opening remark. "I've been in this office for six years, and yet every t….

Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?.

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians..