Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Jack, you've debauched my sloth.

Don’t beg for treasure

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

What feeds me destroys me.

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper

There is a whole other generation that knows me from "Arrested Development" "Scream" and, of course, "Happy Days."

Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.

If you're doing a recipe on national television, there's really no room for being sloppy or a nonperfectionist.

At the end of a matter ask, "What will I learn from this to make me better?"

A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.