Was that you or the duck?

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

For Aristotle, it's not enough simply to act in accordance with the reason once in a while. We must cultivate habits of virtue that develop into a firmly established moral character over a lifetime.

My dad probably gave me the best advice growing up. I think it's really just keeping your cool in situations and learning to balance everything.

I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school.

Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on..."

I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.

War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

There's incredible effect in being either loved or hated, but knowing that, either way, you have penetrated the mind and have altered it; that is a very pleasurable feeling.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.