This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

I have good days and bad days.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

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.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

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.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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.‘

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

The future will be better tomorrow.