Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits.

Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

The theatre, which is my most comfortable place, unfortunately it's very hard to make a living in.

No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.