Healing is a matter of time but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness sometimes with horror.
I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to they ask me to.
I love being on stage. I'm completely totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.
Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness because I am often down and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness it helps to know unhappiness.
My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful difficult but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.
Well there are two kinds of happiness grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks but even then you have to believe in yourself.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes but suffering for the most part makes men petty and vindictive.
Working hard is great being lazy sometimes is great but failed potential is the worst.
I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit I'll break up with someone on purpose.
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible.
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
The first day of spring is one thing and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now unfortunately it's a national disgrace. Sometimes the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
By definition a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy but nothing more.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And of course sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
Sometimes I'm so tired I look down at what I'm wearing and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down and I'm like 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup that's fine. It's pajama-y good night.'
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good bad it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good more good would happen.
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes it was 29 years.
To kill an error is as good a service as and sometimes even better than the establishing of a new truth or fact.
I have an inability to enjoy things but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy we wouldn't be funny I guess.