Humor is just another defense against the universe.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1 000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but once you do it it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.

What you hope for like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.

I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.