The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Do not drown yourself into fantasy, whatever you can do, do it now, do not wait for tomorrow to come.

Never take anything for granted.

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different ends without altering its nature.

People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building.

Cuz if I don't say I'm the best, tell me who the hell will.

I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.