By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

Knowledge is the Best Weapon, Experience is the Best Teacher, Respect is the Best Admirer, But Life Is the Best Answer

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

No matter how many men you kill, you can't kill your successor.

Laws are the spider's webs which if anything small falls into them they ensnare it but large things break through and escape.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.

The foolish big boys who fight with their toys are so sadly silly.

Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell a history of the world would have to include a handaxe.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.