A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

Thought is borne of failure.

Anticipating is more fun than recollecting.

But know this, if you get killed out there I'm going to fire you.

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.