He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

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

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

I’m a genetic optimist.

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.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

God wants to bless us where we are.

The wisest have the most authority.

Every summer’s mine.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.