Politeness costs little and yields much.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.

We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.

The first rule for speaking well is to think well.

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable.

Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.

We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.

It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego.

There are two main predictions for the future

Don't count the miles, count the I love you's!

You sell more when you stop selling.

My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in the show.

Right now in my career, it's like I'm having more fun than I've ever had, so it's kind of like, 'Man, I can't stop now.'

It, (creativity) requires an inclination to step into the unknown, as well as the ability to persist when there is no end in sight.

It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.