A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

It takes two men to make one brother.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

New York is the great stone desert.

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

It does not matter how long it takes. God will fulfil the promises.

I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist.

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

Words are the vibrations of nature. Therefore, beautiful words create beautiful nature. Ugly words create ugly nature. This is the root of the universe.

So if we use birth control we don't need to be married?

You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live.

The atom has taught me that the little things do count - most.

There ain't no problem that some other dude didn't have 1,000 years ago.