If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

The crime of loving is forgetting.

Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

I prefer old age to the alternative.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.

Do not be afraid to be afraid.

Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.

I wrestle with my mind, but seldom win.

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream with the intention with the being in the mood but always forcibly to convert it into all things.

You got a lot but you just waste all yourself. They'll forget your name soon and won't nobody be to blame but yourself.

It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

If there's one single thing that I do every single time, it's require references and, ideally, at least one reference from every company they've worked at.

If you like cats and have some, you get kittens; and if you like kittens and enjoy having them about, they grow up and you get more cats.

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things.