Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Be a guiding light in the darkness of hatred.

you are a volume in the divine booka mirror to the power that created the universewhatever you want, ask it of yourselfwhatever you're looking for can only be foundinside of you

I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant

Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.

Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.

Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen.

For me now, what I've come to is, we don't know anything.

On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.