I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific.

- Norman Lear

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…

- Norman Lear

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…

- Norman Lear

Success is how you collect your minutes.

- Norman Lear

I wish I knew how we achieve the goal of world peace. My bumper sticker reads 'Just Another Version of You.' The sooner we agree that we're just othe…

- Norman Lear

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

- Norman Lear

Life is about having a good time.

- Norman Lear

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…

- Norman Lear

When something is over, it is over.

- Norman Lear