I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.

I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.

It takes very little to govern good people.

Don’t try to understand consciousness. Just try to be deeply conscious and it will reveal its secret to you.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, writing paper. Our consumption of trees is endless.

Take my last best advice: Try everything twice!

Warrantless wiretapping is an impeachable offense. It couldn't be any clearer.

I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are.

The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.

The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.