It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Be who your enemies dread you'll become.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

ACA is advancing an agenda of dramatic and necessary change in how medical care is delivered in the U.S.

I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure.