Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

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You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our wounded collective soul.

Lawsuits are not pink teas. They are battles.

Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.

You only win when you help others win.

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

Money can be translated into the beauty of living.

Women don't have an expiration date.