Comedy is acting out optimism.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.