Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.

If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage.

Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.

The more you know, the more you can make fun of

Fall, then figure out what to do on the way down.

It's not about the journey. It's about the people you meet.

The absolute worst thing you can do in a scene is be apathetic.

The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.

Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.

The only rule is that there are no rules.

Every interpersonal situation has a solution in which everyone wins.

No aacomplishments are important than self realization of self satisfaction.

He that is not jealous is not in love.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

In great quantity, madame. In great quantity.

Everything you need to be great is already inside you. Stop waiting for someone or something to light your fire. You have the match.

Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.

The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing.

Times change, and we change with them.