A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Take my wife… Please!

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

The truth is lived, not taught.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.