Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

By taking good care of your posture now, you will enjoy and savor lifelong health benefits and beauty.

Years later Lazar would recall questioning his mother as to who the people who shared his meals were. "Some are our relations, " was the response, "But all of them are our people.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.

A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.

Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.

To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.

The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace