When I got married for the third time, and I had children from my other marriage there, that's what I said when it came time in the ceremony for me t….

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart..

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all th….

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the Amer….

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end..

TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary..

Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjo….

I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met..

If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf..

I looked at enough of American Idol in the first weeks, and they're all about humiliation. I listen to Rush Limbaugh because I find it so repulsive. ….

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other thin….

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history..

America is a country of excess..

In my 90-plus years, I have lived a multitude of lives..

That's a very hard thing to help the establishment know. We're still an establishment that thinks the average mentality is something like 13 years of….

We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television..

When I countered that Archie Bunker didn't have to put down a race of people to say that, he replied, 'and you're the dumbest white kid I've ever met….

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it..

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollar….

We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour com….

I think America, unfortunately, collectively thinks of itself as the 'chosen people.' To my knowledge, there are no chosen people, we are all human b….