Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.

Alain de Botton

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise

George Orwell

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Ronald Reagan

A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written.

Thomas Jefferson

My job is never work -- the only time it seems like work is when I'd rather be doing something else.

Source Unknown

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

Clara Bow

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. Philippians 1:9

Bible

You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.

Chris Kyle

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

Ross Perot

And so it goes...

Kurt Vonnegut

The successful man is the average man, focused.

Source Unknown

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Napoleon Bonaparte