You never get over losses. I’ve never gotten over one loss I’ve had in my career. They always stick with me.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose – you drop into a different kind of serious.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.

People have asked me, ‚What would you have done if you hadn’t gone into the Army?‘ I’d say I’d probably be a bus driver. I don’t know.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

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.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

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

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.