Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us yes but they haven't been true to themselves.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

Tides washed the wounds but the scars remained and continued to burn whenever a similar wind blew...

Every avalanche was once a lonely snowflake, every flood was once an aching raindrop.

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

Girl trouble, for me, is when you fall in love.

I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.

Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell or Shia LaBeouf or Leo DiCaprio. You're a comic.

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

Being nervous is a waste of time.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.