Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.