We couldn't live without comedy.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

Health and beauty is not just about what you apply. If you don't have it together on the inside, then nothing else is going to matter.

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.

I'm knocked out, I've never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I'm quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

It should be like a driver's license - no one can have an Instagram until they're 18. It's the wild, wild west, the internet.

If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well