To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

You will never find time for anything. You must make it.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A mans venom poisons himself more than his victim.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

If we do what is necessary all the odds are in our favor.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

What you most repent of is a lasting sacrifice made under an impulse of good-nature. The goodness goes; the sacrifice sticks.

A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

I've always wanted to do a shoot with snakes - big snakes, like pythons.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.

We cannot, any of us, do all the things of which mankind stand in need; we must have fellow-labourers.

The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.

When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and California. It was a very, very exciting period!

November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.

I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me.

If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.

After 'Big Brother,' people came up to me in the street shouting, 'You woz robbed!'

If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.

Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.

The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value.

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

You don't have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful.

I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.

So you see, you can't do everything alone.

Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.