Simplicity of approach is always best.

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.

What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.

Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.

a man who builds a house never really dies.

In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.

to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.