Every wall is a door.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

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

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

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.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

The only way round is through.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

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

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.