A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful.

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer.

People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.

The greatest of all historical shams is believing you can not do something you can.

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

I try to do yoga. I really enjoy stretching and having a nice yoga class or taking a run on the beach. I'm not a big fan of the gym. I try to be out as much as possible.

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.