“There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.”

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That’s right, records! Man, they don’t even make records no more!

Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’

There’s no way to learn how to write a hit song. There’s no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’

The comic-book industry today is not what it was back then, unfortunately. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books.

No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.

No man should put their life in someone else’s hands unless they have covered their own safety from all angles.

Do I feel good enough? Do I feel big enough? Do I feel sexy enough?” Some days, the answer is ‘yes’ but sometimes it’s not.