America Is A Country Of Excess.

You're In The Business - When You're A Writer, Producer, Director - To Get Ratings.

I Wanted To Work With Bert Lahr [the 'cowardly Lion' In 'the Wizard Of Oz'], And I Did.

When I Got Married For The Third Time, And I Had Children From My Other Marriage There, That's What I Said When It Came Time In The Ceremony For Me To Say Something. I Said, "i'm Grateful To Everybody That Participated, Everybody That Participated In My Life That Got Me To This Moment. And Everything Was Dead-right Because Everything Is Right Now."

Success Is How You Collect Your Minutes. You Spend Millions Of Minutes To Reach One Triumph, One Moment, Then You Spend Maybe A Thousand Minutes Enjoying It. If You Were Unhappy Through Those Millions Of Minutes, What Good Is The Thousand Minutes Of Triumph? It Doesn't Equate... Life Is Made Of Small Pleasures. Good Eye Contact Over The Breakfast Table With Your Wife. A Moment Of Touching A Friend. Happiness Is Made Of Those Tiny Successes. The Big Ones Come Too Infrequently. If You Don't Have All Those Zillions Of Tiny Successes, The Big Ones Don't Mean Anything.

We Had Two African American Writers [eric Monte And Michael Evans] On The Show ['good Times'] That Knew Cabrini Green Inside And Out, And That's Why We Set It There.