We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.

Be adorable always to each other; respect is everlasting.

Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.

You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you're the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single.

I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.

The wonderful thing about the cartoon form is it's a combination of words and pictures. You don't have to choose, and the contribution of the two often winds up being greater than the sum of its parts.

Facts get shares; opinions get shrugs.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.

If you're going to get engaged make sure you've talked to your partner about life together in the years to come.

Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.

Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.

No show would be successful if you took a group of people and just said, 'You're dumb!' over and over. That's not what Broadway's about.

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.

The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee.

I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

I eat healthy and dont go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.