Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

The soundtrack to Indecent Exposure is a romantic mix of music that I know most women love to hear, so I never keep it far from me when women are nearby.

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us, but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak, speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual, if with your superiors, no finer.

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

The universe is laughing behind your back.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

I'm a golfer -- not an athlete.

Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

If you haven't all the things that you want, be thankful for all the things that you don't have that you didn't want.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.

They live that they may eat, but he himself eats that he may live.

Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.