I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.

Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

In the race of life I would rather to be around the best and sink than to be around mediocrity and swim.

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel

all large cities are alike at night.

A person who has great wealth will still be unhappy if he hasn't also mastered gratitude!