Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.

Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose — the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties."

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

Life pushes all of us around. Some people give up and others fight. A few learn the lesson and move on. They welcome life pushing them around. To these few people it means they need and want to learn something.

Failure inspires winners & defeats losers.

Life is the best teacher of all. Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, 'Wake up'. There is something I want you to learn.