Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.

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.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.

I make no apologies for being reasonable.

I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don't know about--and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.

Take care of your body from the inside out.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

The cure to information overload is more information.

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

If you change the environment, you change the people.

Even getting one amazing shot in a pristine environment is what I live for.