No man is greater than his respect for sleep.

Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts.

Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love.

We don't communicate anymore. We just talk.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

As a person, the only people who matter are my kids and how they see me.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.