Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

Family's not family unless it's totally messing you up. I'm pretty sure that's the point

Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.

Wherever I am, I think it's my show.

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

Progress means nothing to presence.