It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Hope of gain lessens pain.

Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.

After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

Las Vegas was such a teeny, tiny place.

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.

My younger years were filled with fear; my todays are filled with confidence.

The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.

Or more precisely, is there anything I can do for you, ma’am? (Waiter) ‘How about a bag for my head, or a stick to beat Lanie with?’ (Grace)