I’ll die a crazy old man!

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

I’m a genetic optimist.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

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

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

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.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

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

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don’t have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that’s actually saying something.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

I know love is the answer.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

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

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.