"You cannot get one nickel for commercial flying."

“Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.”

“Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.”

Source : Lectures on the English Comic Writers "On Wit and Humor" (1818)

“A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.”

“Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.”

“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time”

“The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.”

“If you eliminate the junk food, you don't really run the risk of gaining weight if you've got a good workout routine.”

“Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.”