A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.

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.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.

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

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

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

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

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

If you would judge, understand.

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

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.