When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Love does not always end well.

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.

Your ambition outweighed your talent

I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking about when I used to drink or when I used to take drugs. I'm more interested in the future.

If you appreciate your life, if you appreciate your job, if you appreciate yourself, if you appreciate your surroundings-poor or rich, whatever they are-you are divine.

Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.

Eternal vigilance is the price of sexual confidence.

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.

Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don't plant anything but Love.