The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.