Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through the clinic's program and a 12-step recovery plan.

If Pete’s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he’s a boy, my son will defeat him.

The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.

Sometimes heckling can almost help a set, because it ratchets up the tension in the room... can even bring things to a climax.

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

I have been much blessed.

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.