I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Be the flame, not the moth.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever

Love is three quarters curiosity.

Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.

The good is the enemy of the best.

Does having a wife and kids change your act? Yes, but only in the best way. It gives you weight and authority. It also makes you closer to the audience because the audience is married and has kids.

A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person says.

If you're performing for the right reasons, it's glorious.

I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.

If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

Fate is a wheel that turns without our hand

No one should be posing for duck-lipped selfies with the plaque of the dead. That wouldn't be right.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.