Comedy is acting out optimism.
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
If you follow every dream, you might get lost.
The day of individual happiness has passed
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Courage is grace under pressure.
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.
Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
