Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Wedlock is a padlock.

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

Good words cool more than cold water.

Where love fails we espy all faults.

To those we love best we say the least

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

Dreams do come true if you work hard and you get your head down.

I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

[Vladimir Putin] complimented him. That led Donald Trump to then compliment Vladimir Putin and to defend Vladimir Putin's actions in a number of places around the world.

This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.

I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

The wealth of a country is its working people.