All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

You have to have something to love. Something to fight for to make living a goal instead of a job.

All true teachings expand awareness, not limit it.

The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid Caesar, me, and Mel Brooks.

We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.

I got older - 16, 17 - I was like, "I want to do my own thing." I wasn't seeing eye to eye with my parents. It wasn't what they wanted for me.

Take my last best advice: Try everything twice!

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem very impressive for quite a long while.