“Time heals, and experience teaches that the secret of happiness is in service to others.”

Laughter is very close to tears and vice versa.

Our tragedies are only as big as we make them.

My tramp is made up of mimicry.

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

The desire for peace is universal.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease from pain.

I’m unconscious while I’m acting. I live the role and am not myself.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

In all truth there is the seed of falsehood.

That is all there is in life – beauty. You find that and you have found everything.

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

By simple common sense I don’t believe in God, in none.

In the end, everything is a gag.

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.

I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Secrecy is for the happy,–misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.

If you’re willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it’s, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.

When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.

Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.