Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Your trustworthiness quotient depends on your transparency ratio.

At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.

For as is often the happenstance with that which is precious and lost, when you find him again, he may well not be quite as you left him.

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics.

I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.

We have hearing aids in order to fix our ears. We have lasik surgery in order to fix our eyes. People ... you can't fix stupid!

Records are there to be broken.