Al Lewis Quotes

If anything I consider myself an anarchist,

I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.

I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.

But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.

There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.