In its early stages insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but by your own estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment

By 'radical ' I understand one who goes too far, by 'conservative ' one who does not go far enough, by 'reactionary ' one who won't go at all.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Like me the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

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