“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained”

“I'm a damsel, I'm in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day!”

“We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.”

“Laughter is America's most important export.”

“For every laugh, there should be a tear.”

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we're curious,and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

“To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.”

“I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.”

“Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”

“Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better”

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”