Al Lewis Quotes

You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.

If you don't have the balls to brake late, that's your problem.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

Elvis is dead and I don't feel so good for myself.

If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed

I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way.

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

In racing there are always things you can learn, every single day. There is always space for improvement, and I think that applies to everything in life.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

If Love Were Oil, / I'd Be About a Quart Low.

I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

Tomorrow may be fair, however stormy the sky of today.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

They tore out my heart and stomped that sucker flat.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.

I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Spring time is the land awakening.

If you are not the lead dog, your scenery never changes.

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

Obviously I am not happy but they can throw what they want at me, I will come back stronger.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.