The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.

Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.

I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter.

A Polish man in a helicopter. Goes up to 800 feet. Down it comes! What happened? "It got chilly up there, so I turned off the fan!"

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.

If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.

When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.