The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

Everything in life tries to hit us hard. We feel like dying. But instead fight back hard to survive. After all surviving was the only aim of everything.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

It was easy for me to show the films to the studio and the network and say, "This is who I'm hiring."

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

As a comic, you learn to use your voice because you don't have the benefit of visual things.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.