“I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool, an optimist must know what a sad place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.”

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

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

“The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.”

“If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.”

“Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.”

“Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.”