Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask whether your country has been inhaling paint-thinner fumes.

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

I barely took a moment to appreciate nature. Come to think of it, theonly time I did it was when I was so upset I wanted to commit suicide in theHuang Pu river.

Spiritual-self consist of a determined soul and indomitable spirit.

Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.

Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.

Devotion is a way of being, it's not something you do. It's dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.

My heart, far too sensitivefor this human world.My heart, so easily wounded, sheds rose tears of compassion.

What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.