A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Your value depends on how much love you gave away, not on how much money you have accumulated.

That girl's heart is bigger than Texas." Her eyes narrowed. "And it's as tender as a baby's butt. You take care with it, you hear?

When people did stupid things around him, that was usually the last thing they did.

...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.

My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.

Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both.

Hunger steals the memory

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

I won't support any budget, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat budget, that doesn't lead to balance.