To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

History is more or less bunk.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

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.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

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

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

There is no unique picture of reality.

I’ll die a crazy old man!