Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.

People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all prejudiced in favor of ourselves.

The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.

Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money.

Hypocrisy/hi pakrise/ noun1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else.

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.

we are to be brought through the fire, not left in it. and you know what? to anyone that ever told you that you're no good... they're no better.

In the thirty years of my career I learned everything about success, but I did not learn, really, about failure. In Bar Rescue I got exposed to failure at a very deep level.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.