Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

I learned over the years that it's easy to appear smart referencing things that people don't know.

In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.

No no no! Don't clap! No no no, you make me seem like I'm like a prophet or something and I'm so not!

Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.

I think every woman character, every female character, has her own arc.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies.