The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes. ↗
I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that. ↗
I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career. ↗
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. ↗
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. ↗