We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

It was almost enough to make me turn vegetarian, except for the pesky fact that I loved cheeseburgers.

If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.

It's hard to narrow down your influences in comedy.

My dad, Fred Trump, was the smartest and hardest-working man I ever knew. It's because of him that I learned from my youngest age to respect the dignity of work and the dignity of working people.

So the legs are little short, the knees maybe knock a little but who listens?

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.

I'm a pretty big pizza enthusiast so I could talk about pizza all day if you want

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.