I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.

Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.

The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure.

I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.

It would be quite good to be a Formula 1 racecar driver.

And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.