I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

To achieve great things we must be self-confined... mastery is revealed in limitation.

One is not born with bigotry, prejudice, patriotism, greed, anger, or self-centered behavior. These are nurtured through the environment.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.

If two people talk and the third listens to their conversation — it is a theater.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Love is life itself; but not an unreasonable, suffering and dying life, but a blissful and endless life.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.

You found it offensive?
I found it funny.
That's why I'm happier than you.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

Keep fighting. Never stop fighting. They'll tell you it's impossible, don't fuking listen to them.