Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

Sometimes it's the simplest things we should most long for.

With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

Faith is the receiver of grace

Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners.

What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.

Funny the only two times we use the phrase "seeing someone" are when we are referring to being in a a relationship or getting psychological help.

When it's done properly, taco should be a verb.

Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.

Mindfulness - moment to moment non-judgemental attention and awareness.

We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.