I don't mind 800 million Chinese drinking a bottle [of Coca-Cola] a day, but I don't want them to bring back the empties.

The best things in life aren't things.

People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.

There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

The things that matter most are not things.

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

I worship the quicksand he [Richard Nixon] walks in.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

I focus on the light I can find, and if I can't find it, I create it.

We all came from the same source and it's energy in form of light shining in every consciousness.

Don't expect to achieve and maintain financial success without understanding the difference between your wants and needs, and not allowing your wants to control your life.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

I have learned a lot about good and evil - they are not always what they appear to be.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

I'm glad I was never in a band.