I've always been very averse to innuendo, especially sexual. I find it cowardly or something.

Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

All kinds of violence on the TV. You're not supposed to watch violence on the TV. Children, they can't watch it 'cause they're afraid maybe the kids will copy something they see on the TV. I can't even get a funny cartoon anymore because some 12-year-old somewhere watched a particularly violent episode of the Road Runner-Coyote show, and the next day, they found him at the bottom of a canyon, two giant springs strapped to his feet.

Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.