All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

I don't believe there's a challenge anywhere in the world that's more important to people everywhere than finding solutions to the problems of our cities. But …

You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be funny.

I read Hemingway's posthumous Paris memoirs, rumoured to have been written by his wife (`Out of the question,' Toni assured me, `they're so badly written they …

I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.