Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

If life throws you a few bad notes, don't let them interrupt your song.

Prayer isn’t about repeating rituals

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!

I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.

Did you know that we are the only people in the United States who have to have their voting rights okayed every couple of years?