Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

I know every fight could be my last fight, and if that happens, that's not just a health issue, but I'll be knocked off that king's stool.

Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.

We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

Arnold was a dog's dog. Whenever he shuffled along walks and through alleyways, he always gave the impression of being on to something big.

We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.

Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.