Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.

I don't wear a mask, I don't have a suit. It's not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!

The Manifesto was not a divine production but something manufactured to outwit the church's enemies.

If you only had an hour to sum your whole life up, would you spend that hour saying that an hour ain't enough?

Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.

I looked at my competitors and I thought that, "If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them."

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.

We're in a league of our own darling and don't you forget it.