"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."

"This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two."

"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."

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."

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

"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there."

"This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come."

"...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor."

"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression."

"Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders."

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

"Liberty has restraints but no frontiers."