humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.

Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.

A true artist creates art because they have a passion and desire to do so.

No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence!

An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.

President George Washington used to wear a wig and make-up. I mean, c'mon, if he could do it, I can do it.

My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.

I've had an interesting life.

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.