The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.
Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one . . . and got hit by a bus.
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.
The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
It is better to be safe than sorry.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.
I hope I look as good as my mother does when I reach the age she says she isn't.
Humility is attentive patience.
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.
You build on cost and you borrow on value.
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.