I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

Treat your mind like a museum, not a warehouse

Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions?

I actually feel like, for a lot of my career, I wasn't able to show my comedic range. I did a lot of dramas and dramedies. I was on 'E.R.' That's not generally thought of as a funny show.

Setting up a college fund would be a great way to redirect the tangible evidence of Daddy's love.

We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.

I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.

Isn't it amazing that there are laws of the universe that you can actually find out about, live your life according to and change the world for the better?

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.