Jack Benny

"I would rather laugh at life than cry about it."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that people can change their lives by changing the attitudes of their minds."

"My wife says I snore. I say she's lucky to hear me at all."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better."

"The key to a long marriage is knowing when to say 'yes, dear.'"

"I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to."

"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it."

"I would always rather be happy than right."

"The greatest gift you can give someone is your time."

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

"The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know."

"I think I'm a pretty good judge of character. Most of the characters I play are pretty good."

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

"I would rather fail doing something than succeed doing nothing."

"The most important thing is not the destination, but the journey."

"I've been married to the same woman for fifty-five years, and I'm still trying to understand her."

"The only constant in life is change."

"I would tell people the secret to success, but then they'd know it."

"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened."

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

"I don't believe in luck. I believe in preparation meeting opportunity."

"The art of conversation is the art of being interesting."

"I would rather be a man of few words and many deeds than a man of many words and few deeds."

"The secret to staying young is to lie about your age."

"I've learned more from failure than I ever have from success."

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

"I would always choose friends over money."

"The greatest wealth is not money, but time."

"I think that's the problem with this world. There's too much thinking and not enough doing."