There is a danger in democracy itself.
— Danny Kaye
I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have.
I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.
I am a wife-made man.
I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.
I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.
When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.