Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

Good-humor is the clear blue sky of the soul.

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key.

The Sabbath-day is the savings-bank of humanity.

As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.

The best practitioners give to their patients the least medicine.

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.

Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches.

You have to put yourself out there as a writer, you can’t play it safe.

I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.

Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what's over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food than without information. Without information, you'd go crazy.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s.

My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.

If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him. He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly. "Not driving any more.

A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.

. . . And always remember that you are Americans, and it is your birthright to dream great dreams in this sweet and blessed land, truly the greatest, freest, strongest nation on Earth.