Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.

The easiest thing is to say no. What's not so easy is telling yourself to stop.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

I couldn't picture myself with a boyfriend, but if I had to, I envisioned a nice normal guy who turned in his math homework on time and maybe even played rec baseball.

Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

TV has no choice, but to rely on character, and everybody knows that. I love working in it. It's such a big canvas where, if you're successful, you go on for years.

Most of My Friends are two-thirds water

You learn how to persevere... to have discipline, you learn to lose, you learn to win, you learn how to not quit.

Hold on tight, Sam." He puts me in a choke hold. "Ahhh," I gasp. "Not that tight.

It is the distance between us that creates language.