My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.

Set your mind free from any negative thoughts.

Lord lead us to the right places.

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.

Grace is inexplicable, inappropriate, out of bounds, offensive, excessive, & given to the wrong people.

When one questions [Dalai Lama's] political actions, it is worth remembering that he's the single most experienced politician on the planet at this moment.

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.