The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
I'm married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it's one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.
When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.
If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.
It's strange - there's a public persona of me that does nothing for me: the side of me where it's 'US Weekly,' where 12 cars sit outside my house because of who I married. That side never shuts off. I would like that to shut off sometimes, yes.
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great.
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
Sometimes people ask, 'Does writing make you happy?' But I think that's beside the point. It makes you agitated, and continually in a state where you're off balance. You seldom feel serene or settled.
Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.
Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.
One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.
It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing.
I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility.
The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn't say I don't respect other people's opinions, but my opinion is the most important.
