People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

We don’t have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures – and I quote – ‚hit the bottom‘ so the market could – I quote – ‚run its course.‘

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

The stylish kids on the street, they’re the ones that set the trends. The designers see what they’re doing and go and design their line and sell it back to the same kids, and it’s like, why not go directly to the source?

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Applause waits on success.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

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

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.