The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

It is difficult to cultivate a healthy relationship in a landscape overgrown with blame, lack of trust, and betrayal

An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year, " says Zoroaster.

In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government.

No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be Joe's Pub all over again."

When the five of our voices come together, there is a special something there. That is something that I know.

When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.

It was marrying that made women appreciate other women.

The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses