You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

You'd be surprised at how much I can drink. I mean, I can really drink.

Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn

The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction.

Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles.

If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home.