Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

To some extent, it is almost blasphemous to think that insult, anger and irritation could be a positive force.

I'm able to do my television projects and movie projects that I really want to explore. For me, it's not about the money, it's not about the fame. I love creating.

I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.

The real name for 'science' is magic.

Racial inequality is a big problem.

We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.

I love stand-up more than anything, and I'm so happy to have found a way to use it in the show.

Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.

Yeah, my parents help me keep my feet on the ground.