I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Life must be lived as play.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

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.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

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

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.