"Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint."

"One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream."

"There is nothing so habit-forming as money."

"I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."

"The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers."

"Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are."

"That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent."

"If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings."