Dick Cavett

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t, either.

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

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

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

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.

Most fashionable commodity in US is going to be old-fashioned common sense and work.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

The more natural, the better.

People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.