I've learned.... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you... More

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

You see, I believe that you cannot be taught to 'write.' You can be taught grammar and punctuation, but you cannot be taught to be a writer. That has to come from within.

Everything I make starts very personally.

Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

All life is a test one way or the other.

I'm underrated, don't fit on nobody's playlist / If I ain't in your top 10, then you're a racist.

If you have worker-owned and worker-managed enterprises, you've got a different sociopolitical system.

Nothing outside of ourselves will ever make us happy, because happiness is an inside-out experience.

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.

Always throw your clubs ahead of you. That way you don't have to waste energy going back to pick them up.