Person-to-person, most people are honest.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.

Every Intelligent person was once a fool.

In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.

Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

The part that's difficult is being single, at 41, after 10 years of marriage and two kids. That's like having a bunch of money in a currency of a country that doesn't exist anymore.

Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.

The real question is "Why should we make an exception for billionaire politicians?". We should not.

We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.