As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We think too much and feel too little.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

An unhappy life is a wasted life.

Love while there is a still a blessed possibility to love.

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

Cartoons are the best stuff on TV. 'Wonder Showzen, ' 'Aqua Teen, ' 'SpongeBob, ' and, of course, 'South Park' - one of the funniest shows ever made.

You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.

All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious, because joy is too varied and elusive ever to confine itself to one or the other.

Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.