Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.

I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh—also if I win.

‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

You want Change, today we'll show you Change!Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!

Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

Shoes off in the whale! And don't try and make a break for the anus.

Perhaps you should bite me", Bobby Pendragon.

What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?

I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces.

Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

I found the candles—atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine.