If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was responsible go too far out of line.

Its funny - when you look at the real A-listers nowadays, look at how many live in and around Hollywood. Most of them live on a ranch in Utah. Its no coincidence these guys get in and get out.

The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist like other comics. I'm not up there talking about masturbating.

Real love will take you far beyond yourself;and therefore real love will devastate you.

They say I get into too many bunkers. But is no problem. I am the best bunker player.

There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.