Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Mind over mattress.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

Love is a state of being.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

I’m not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

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

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

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

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

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Hatred is settled anger.