I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly

As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.

Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.

One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.

I am blind -- but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' . . . I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.

You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

Now I tell you the downside of this is you feel awful, but the upside is you feel terrific.

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.

Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie.

I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.

Please hear me, you are not alone on this planet hurtling through space, solitude is an illusion, come let me help you, rise up, walk forward, walk tall, walk straight, let nothing stop you.

Life is but a short and fevered rehearsal for a concert we cannot stay to give.

I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person...

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair.

Experience has taught me a lot, and I don't want to let that fall by the wayside.

Music is an emotion and it makes you feel a certain way. Some songs make you want to dance, while some make you think. Some songs are positive, while some people see those songs as negative.

No amount of temporal success can compensate for the loss of God's approval.

The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.

Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.