Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.

Anger does not solve anything

Don't thank the lord, I gave you that compliment... Thank me.

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

Don’t lose faith in the good things, even when life is tough. The good things come in waves, along with the bad.

Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.

I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.

Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning

What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.