In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

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.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

in all the vastness of the world, the deepest adventure is not of war or mortal danger, but of heart, of soul, of the infinite discovery of a beloved other.

...But all that power has culminated in gentleness. It is as if that is the point of power: to allow one to access the higher registers of gentleness.

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.

I, Charles W. Penrose, wrote the Manifesto with the assistance of Frank J. Cannon and John White... Wilford Woodruff signed it to beat the devil at his own game.

Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.