What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

History is more or less bunk.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

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.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

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

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

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

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

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

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

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

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.