“A grievance that can be expressed is not grievance; a lover who can be taken away is not a lover.”
“Being funny is like being a wizard. You have the power to take people's troubles away with laughter.”
“But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years—and it opens.”
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
“Courage is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
“Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.”
“Do not leave anything not where it's supposed to be.”
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
“Find yourself a girl and settle down. Live a simple life in a quiet town. Steady, as she goes.”
“Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping—they called it opportunity.”
“For most people, a good life would be one with a supportive family, great friends, strong skills and knowledge, and good physical and mental health.”
“Geniuses are the luckiest people among mortals, because what they have to do is what they want to do.”
“Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
“I am convinced that life is ten per cent of what happens to me and ninety per cent of how I react to it.”
“I don't want to be remembered as just a funny guy. I want to be remembered as a truth teller.”
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
“I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.”
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
“If you want to preserve your good name, do not praise yourself and do not so much as allow others to praise you.”
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
“It is labor itself that constitutes the main factor of happiness. Any enjoyment that does not rely on a hard world will soon become boring.”
“It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honorably.”
“Landslides, rain, cool air, and a clear path, but these come at different times and phases for each person.”
“Life consists of faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, and sexual and romantic love, desire, regret and loss.”
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
“Live your life in such a way that you neither hide nor have a wish to display your life to people.”
“Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the comedian is the only thing that makes sense.”
“One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.”
“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
“Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”
“Small bad guys are hated, big bad guys are admired.”
“The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote some one who is.”
“The opposite of good is not evil. It is indifference. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
“The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously.”
“The secret of change is to concentrate all your abilities, not to destroy the old, but to build the new.”
“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson”
“The true measure of a person's character is how they treat those who can do nothing for them.”
“There is nothing more dangerous than absolute certainty in one's beliefs.”
“Think of a life that is perfect in every way. Can you really imagine what that life would be like?”
“Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
“What a joy it is to do a good deed! And this joy is strongest if no one knows that you have done it.”
“What is the meaning of life? Shut up and get to work, take care of your family.”
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it—always.”
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”
“Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”
“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
“Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.”
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
“What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”
“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to have it make some difference, that you have lived and lived well.”
“Just when everything seems lost; one has knocked on all doors which lead nowhere, and then, unwittingly, one pushes against the only one through which one would have searched in vain for a hundred years—and it opens.”
“We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.”
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
“Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip.”
“The problem for us is not whether our desires are satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.”
“It's not about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.”
“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.”
“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”