Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

You're like a band-aid that is slowly ripping off, and I'm still wounded!

There’s only one person to blame for lack of self confidence

It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.

Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu - and I hear she's amazing in it.

We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.