I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.

Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.

Go on your way, use you brain, be innovative, achieve your dreams and don’t turn back, because you left so many envious people behind you !! …

I miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now ...

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

Japan is the perfect example of make plans, and watch God laugh.

Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.

I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time.

Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental birth. And like childbirth, Wisdom often comes with pain.

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.