I've always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.

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.

As he satin the tree he looked down at the girl in the floral dress and felt his heart miss a beat.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Bow to nothing, son. I make mistakes as well as any man. If you think me wrong, be so good as to damn well say so.

Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.

I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful.

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.