If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems.

Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.

Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.

Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

I like to watch French movies with the volume up so my neighbors could think I'm terrorist.

I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.