“If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.”

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?

We all need someone who appreciates us in our success and motivates us in our failure.

Take your time to appreciate the things you have lately.

I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

I think being sexy and comfortable in your body is a wonderful thing, and I don’t mind being acknowledged for it or appreciated for it.

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago

Your heart just breaks, that’s all. But you can’t judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.