Comedy is acting out optimism.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Common sense is not so common.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Genius is sorrow's child.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

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.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.