Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

You’ll see it when you believe it.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience – which is definitely an acquired taste.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.