
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

I've always avoided expressing an opinion about where I think the republican movement should go - if it should go anywhere at all.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.