It would be a great disappointment for you to give up on yourself before the appointed time to reap the fruit of your labor.

Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?

A person must know who he is. A person must understand himself, improve himself, learn his weaknesses in order to overcome them. It is hard for a person to understand his own weaknesses.

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

I'm harmless. I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody. When people know you're that way, you can say stuff that the creepy guy at your office could never get away with.

The only limitations are mental. The guy who thinks positively will win.

We're in this together usually means I'm here for you, unless it requires me getting into my car anywhere near rush hour.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

... every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.