I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don't like to memorize words.

We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.

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

The only two TV shows I saw do that, where they don't warm them up and you can really bomb, was Saturday Night Live - and that's why it gets a lot of heat, too. Obviously it gets criticism fairly, too. But a lot of it is because Lorne [Michaels] lets the audience decide and doesn't force them to laugh.

Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.

In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.

Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.