I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

Brennan Manning

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Dorothea Brande

What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage.

Stephen King

Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.

Ernest Hemingway

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

G. M. Trevelyan

Bed is the poor man's opera.

Italian Proverb

Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.

Source Unknown

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

Vaclav Havel

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

Lena Horne

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

Hesiod

I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.

Russell Pearce