When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in god as personally dislike him.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

If you want to know what god thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.