The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

We were poor, but we smiled.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.

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

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I came up from a difficult background.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

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 was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Everything isn’t political.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

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 telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

I love life because what more is there?

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.