Constancy is the chimera of love.

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.

Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'Tis better than many aver For while we've a whole lot of troubles The most of them never occur.

I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am.

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

Dogs are a habit, I think.

Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.

I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.

A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

I found that I loved producing that kind of propaganda and I loved the power that a few students with a Macintosh computer could wield. I was hooked on communications at that point.

The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'