Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

Your calling should be your territory

Never allow your current circumstances dictate your level of happiness! Remember that this too shall pass! Rejoice always!

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Even the disciples, who at times could be dense as bricks, realized that the true neighbor was the one who showed mercy to a stranger.

Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together.

It was silly, wasn't it? But the singing made it not silly.

[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.