The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness when it was over I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear not through love.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great how famous or successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.