When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Keep reading books but remember that a book is only a book and you should learn to think for yourself.

Anger is like ice and also quick to melt.

Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face.

Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.

If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy,' and over the years, many students told me that they enjoyed reading it because there were so many stories in there; often just a paragraph or a page of something that happened in a group session.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

A Socrates in every classroom.

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

You can have a very bad end with Parkinson's, but on the other hand, you can be like me, because I'm lucky. I'm not having a bad end.

I've always been round, strong, and muscular.

Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent.

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Anyone who bombs is my friend.

I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.

I love rhinestones, faux jewelry.

The rich - they just live in another realm, really.

I am brave.

The only way to be content in life is to make sure your NEED don't become GREED.

I remember liking 'A Cinderella Story' with Hilary Duff a lot when I was younger. I loved that movie, but maybe it was because of Chad Michael Murray. It was a really sweet movie, and I always liked Hilary Duff.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better.

I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown!

Some people will say, and have said, that I'm trying to run from country, but I'm never going to make anything other than a country record.

It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland.