The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on

The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.

I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be.

You're getting to be a big boy,' I said desperately, 'it's time you started thinking about your future.' 'I'm thinking about my future,' said Sonny, grimly. 'I think about it all the time.

When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance.

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

I am proud to be the president of the state of Israel.

I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.