Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

Charlie Chaplin

That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...

You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.

You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.