Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

I don't want the cheese. I just want to get out of the trap.

With bread and wine you can walk your road.

From a fallen tree all make kindling.

You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.

Don't offer me advice give me money.

Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

He who fears death cannot enjoy life.

You can't ring the bells and at the same time walk in the procession.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

Seeing Shakespeare in the Park, for me, it's just this side of feeling like you've witnessed some kind of magic. It's this spell that you're under, to be part of that!

I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part.

Grace gives without the receiver realizing how great the gift really is.

The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.

Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.

Matt Damon is a great actor, and he's from Boston, so we've got a few things in common. I've seen him throw a football, though. He definitely needs to work on that.