Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear; 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear, But what thou art.

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

He who conquers, endures.

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.

Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.

The belly is the giver of genius.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.

A man cannot understand the art he is studying if he only looks for the end result without taking the time to delve deeply into the reasoning of the study.

When women and men listen with the heart a liberating or cleansing process comes about in the collective, and something transformative moves through both parties and into the dialogue.

Facing it-always facing it-that's the way to get through. Face it!

Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.

A master lives in the world of transformation, not the world of loss and gain.

I have been on the phone 30 minutes with you and you haven't helped me solve this problem.

I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.

Taking responsibility of others means to be selfless. We have to put aside our own well being and desires as secondary and to think primarily of what is best for the persons who are looking up to us.

When I started out, some women comics were jealous of other women comics, thinking, "If she gets "The Tonight Show," I can't." My philosophy always was, "If she did, I can too."