Freedom of action is disguised as a freedom of discipline.

Through seeing the good in others, you also see the best within yourself.

One who has a clear mind can never be fooled by his senses.

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

The west coast is a mecca for wild hearts, wild minds, wild spirits and I’m a WMD—I’ve got so much energy I’m about to explode.

Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.

Eternity: the length of a life.

In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

Become aware of what you are thinking and you will recognize a law between your mood and your surrounding circumstances.

The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.