We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

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

I’m not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

I don’t think comedy will ever die.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

I don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

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

Farewell, fair cruelty.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

I don’t get bored.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

I’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

I try to be funny and not ignorant.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.