If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Thought is free.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.