Comedy is acting out optimism.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Moonlight is sculpture.
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.