Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

We were together. I forget the rest.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

I think he'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature.

Wishing does not make a poor man rich.

That's the best way to cross the Atlantic.

Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they're barbarians.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored.

I'm convinced more than ever that capitalism, with its technological development, has not been an advance toward freedom but has been an enormous setback of freedom.

I live in a 9 million dollar turd.

Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work.