I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts

Hillary Clinton'll be Madam President and we'll be in the White House.

Based on something called a 'ping,' where you literally ping a cell phone using an electronic signal that then reflects the location of where that cell phone is.

By releasing these five top Taliban commanders, the U.S. is demonstrating that it is throwing in the towel in the long struggle against the Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies in Afghanistan.

My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.

The simpler songs are just done when the lyric has been stated; the more complex or band-oriented stuff can go in a million directions.

We need to realize that we have a role to play in overcoming our own discrimination which is sometimes very subtly held.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.