The art of dying graciously is nowhere advertised, in spite of the fact that its market potential is great.

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

I have never been able to understand why it is that just because I am unintelligible nobody understands me.

Scott Buchanan . . . taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking.

To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don’t have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful.

If you start identifying your inner self with the spirit of pure potentiality then you are aligning with the power that helps in the manifestation of all energy in the form of matter.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can't ever be a better place than Earth.

Other people need a full night's sleep in order to function and be healthy and alert. But I'm different.

It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff.

But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.

I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.