Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.

Nobody, but nobody, is going to tell me I'm not the most. I am. I was the most when everybody else was struggling bitterly to become a little.

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?

I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine, or private hunger, or anything, can stop you from writing, then don't write . . . because if anything can even begin to keep you from writing you aren't a writer and you'll be in a hell of a mess until you find out. If you are a writer, you'll still be in a hell of a mess, but you'll have better reasons.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.