I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.

I believe in the separation of church and planet.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

Never do things for money. It's always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best.

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

I've got soggy thighs. It must be dinner time.

When a man plans, a woman laughs.

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.

God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

Freedom is living without chains.

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction.

Stay positive and love your life.