Norman Lear

“Humor is the other side of caring.”

“The next great moment for me is the next.”

“We were all created in the image of God, and yet we were all created differently.”

“I've been a liberal my whole life. I was a Roosevelt Democrat.”

“I never, ever, in my life, have been without a cause.”

“You can't have a character that isn't flawed. You can't have a character that's just a hero. They have to have a flaw.”

“We're all a little crazy. And that's what makes life interesting.”

“Life is a collaboration. And when you're in a family, it's a collaboration.”

“The things that made me laugh are the facts of life and the frailty of the human condition.”

“Even a flop is a hit. It's a hit because it's on.”

“I think of myself as a bleeding-heart liberal, and I'm not ashamed of it.”

“I think the message of the American dream is that any human being can change his or her life.”

“What's happened is that we have moved from a feeling of responsibility for our fellow man to a feeling of 'I've got mine, you get yours.'”

“I want to be remembered as a loving fool.”

“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.”