Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means.

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

Generals detest generals on their own side far more than they dislike the enemy.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we’re all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

Laughter … the most civilized music in the world.