“Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.”

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Children need models rather than critics.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Space is the stature of God.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn’t want me to be.

Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

Anything I write that I consider stage-quality work, I won’t give my TV show. I put it in my live show.

I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!

I never knew anything about rapping.

Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’

There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.