“You must be prepared to work always without applause.”

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Work could cure almost anything.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

Being against evil doesn’t make you good.

How little we know of what there is to know.

Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

Pause so the fans can applause.

And a round of applause for everyone who lost me.

I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, ‘Do not seek approval from the audience.’ People don’t realize that. You can’t do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.