The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

You must change in order to survive.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

The first and worst of all fraud is to cheat ones self. All sin is easy after that.

A crown if it hurts us is not worth wearing.

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything except perhaps violence.

You cannot belong to anyone else until you belong to yourself.

My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat it.

The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.