The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us.

If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!

When you have developed a relationship with yourself, you can begin to take on the world.

Idolization of oneself is a crime. One is the prisoner of his once blindfolded complacency.

Look out your window on a morning in spring, ten or twenty years hence, and perhaps you'll see me coming.

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

I wouldn't want to be around anyone that would want me around.

How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?

Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.

Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.

When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.