All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

All for one, one for all, that is our device.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

All for one and one for all.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

All for one, one for all.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Be good, be young, be true. Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world there is only the comparison of one state with another nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.

Happiness is egotistical.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one you will never want to live again only to dream forever.

We must never expect discretion in first love it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow it will choke you.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

Hatred is blind, rage carries you away, and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

The proper way to check slander is to despise it; attempt to overtake and refute it, and it will outrun you.

Slander and libel would not have such a force, if stupidity did not pave their way.

A good surgeon operates with his hand, not with his heart.

All human wisdom is contained in these two words--Wait and Hope.

All for one, and one for all.

However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.

There is no evidence that terrorists use Mexico to cross into the United States. There have been comments to that regard, but not one of those statements has contained hard evidence.

One always wonders about roads not taken.

I try not to judge because I've been judged a heck of a lot, and it don't feel nice.

I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter.

I've been thinking recently about all the qualities you need in order to be an actor. First and foremost, you've got to have a thick skin and give out an 'I don't give a monkey's what you think' kind of vibe, while at the same time really caring what everyone thinks. You've got to be tough and sensitive at the same time.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

On a daily basis, you're working with Steve Carell; you're not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can't be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott because Steve is Michael Scott.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had.

Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing - I'll mess around with echo and other effects, just turn everything up and make it as crazy as can be, and it winds up taking me somewhere. I've found so many guitar parts from echo. It's limitless.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Befriend your shadow and life will be easier.

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.