My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, “You know, I brought you in this world, and I can take you out. And it don't make no difference to me, I'll make another one look just like you.

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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

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It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

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Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

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Gray hair is God's graffiti.

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The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

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Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

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The only thing that you can get into without a lot of trouble is a lot of trouble.

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After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't.

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I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

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