Dick Van Dyke Quotes

We should never judge a day by its weather.

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Sing like nobody can hear you, dance like nobody can see you, and love like you've never been hurt.

The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.

Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.

Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

I've got plenty of arthritis. But if you keep moving, it won't bother you that much. That's why old guys stiffen up. They forget they have to get out of their chairs and do something. You let the moss grow over, it's your own fault.

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults.

I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.

If you spend your life thinking, "I wonder if today is when it ends," you're going to miss out on everything wonderful.

I always loved to dance, but I never had a clue what I was doing.

When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'

I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.

We all know we're going to die. We're all circling the drain. Some of us are closer than others. I'm 90, I know I'm closer to the drain than most people.

It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.

Emotionally I'm about 13.

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

I think that's the answer to a good marriage. Everyone has their own room.

I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.

You're going to die. That's going to happen. What matters is what you do with your time before you get flushed out.