There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

You've made a beast of yourself, - to the beasts you may go.

The drawings are terribly good.

A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.

You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky

Jesus has a special, compassionate concern for those who are broken and needy.

Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.

Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.