Dick Cavett

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t, either.

There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak of yourself.

If you enjoy it enough you’re bound to learn something.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourselves.

Not everything I write will be a masterpiece; I know that. It is a process selecting words to convey feelings never meant to be spoken. So maybe I’ve been searching for what’s already been said and this is the finest way I can say it. I love you, in everything I am, I love you.

I know nothing and my heart aches.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

Indulgence doesn’t prepare, indulgence can cripple a child because the world won’t indulge her.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Anytime I want to feel closer to the ocean, I just lay by your side and listen to the waves ebb and swell in every breath you give and take, and feel each one crash inside of me. I knew from the first time I saw you that whoever said empty shells carried the ocean’s songs had never met you before.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Nothing endures but change.

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.