Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong.

Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.

Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

My parents have always been very respectful of me so I’ve always been really respectful of them. My worst fear is to let them down so that’s why I don’t misbehave.

Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters.

Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.