Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first begin to see time and life correctly. You must first understand that time is life and life is time.

The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.

Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.

Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.

A sky full of silent suns.

I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

Either create your own journey or you'll become a part of someone else's.

Thirty years of spiritual practice has given me the realization that emotions are based on our perceptions, whether or not they are based on reality.

And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.