I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

For greed all nature is too little.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

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.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.