Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

All of our problems start in our minds.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I have such incredible experiences in my life.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

My whole life is a theater piece.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

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.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

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

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.