My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

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.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.

There's nothing as beautiful and empowering in life than a memory.

Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

I don't know why people carry guns. Guns kill people.

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway.

Whatever I receive from a higher power gets me pumped, which gets the crowd pumped, which gets me more pumped, and then we're just pumped up.