there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

Most of the things one worries about never happen.

Fine art is the discipline of breaking rules.

I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

Now the entire world has its eyes on China.

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

You're exhausted in the faith because you're looking at you. The more you look at yourself and the less you look at God, the more you get frustrated at yourself.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.