In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.

I've shown people Richard Pryor who've never seen him, and most of them don't like him.

The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.

I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes a night, doing his monologue with wall-to-wall laughs and applause, then I do 10 minutes a week to, sometimes, breathtaking silence. He's just listening for the laughs.

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.