When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

The future of any leader or political systems is to be determined by the people of the country.

A lot of people think I'm a comedian.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

There are no wrong decisions ― only different ones.

My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.

You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.

We had the kind of team that didn't back down from anybody. If they wanted to intimidate us, we could intimidate as well as they could. Our team was too big and too good to intimidate.