Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

What about the old standby of kicking a guy in the groin?" "Try to." Love to...

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that.

Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs.

I could have been a great many things.

There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.

We must not become so preoccupied looking for "major" miracles that we miss all the daily ones.

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.