Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Fear is quite the anaesthetic

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.

I probably have a different mental approach to swimming than most people. I actually enjoy training.

Hopefully standup will become special again.

Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man’s life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.