Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.

The people who make you feel small, unworthy and valueless are toxic people. You can never expect to grow in life by being close to them. Leave them to grow in life.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

When I was a young boy, I can remember in the community that I grew up in, seeing people in the community who had numbers that were on their arms.

The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.

You are meant to have an amazing life.

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.