And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

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!

Don't lose today …for today is guaranteed but tomorrow is not.

It is the function of creative people to perceive relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expressions that seem utterly different, and to be able to Connect the seemingly Unconnected".

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever.

There are tough times and mountains to climb, but you've got to go for it.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did?

All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.