The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Knowing that you can endure a very difficult challenge offers a degree of confidence that the next challenge can also be endured.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

Your awareness has its source in unity. Instead of seeking outside yourself, go to the source to realize who you are.

That is especially important as more young people must take on huge debt loads to go to college.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives

If you accept failure as learning, it's not discouraging to keep adapting until you find success.

I believe in a woman's right to choose.

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The Brain Opera is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voices - so I do consider it an opera.