It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.

We are gods in the chrysalis.

A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

As much as we seek approval, we dread condemnation

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Success is far more perilous than failure, isn’t it? You’ve got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary.

Sometimes life knocks you down, but all you need to do is to get up because happiness isn’t in the absence of problems but the strength to overcome.

What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.

Jack Nicholson is fairly gifted. We were at the Sistine Chapel, and everybody went from looking straight up to looking across the room at him.

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting.

Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

June is bustin' out all over.