To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.

The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

[When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

I've decided that I am totally against jewelry. So I have all fake. There's no reason to have real diamonds. People think it's real anyway.

I have no idea how to do what you're supposed to do. I do a little bit of humming.

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many north African fish dishes.