Dick Cavett

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.

You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about! You’re crazy!

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

If you believe, you will. If you don’t, you won’t.

Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

I’m constantly reemerging in my life.

Whenever you get the idea that you are ‘fixed’ or that anything is ‘fixed’ for life, you’d better get ready for a sudden change.

The think I remember most about Brooklyn was how much I wanted to get out of Brooklyn.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.