The world is too quiet without you nearby.

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

everything happens for a reason.

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

You're Missing a hand." And you're missing a brain!

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

The head of the AFL-CIO endorsed John Kerry, saying, 'The time has come to come behind one man, one leader, one candidate.' Then he said, 'And until we find that man, we will endorse John Kerry.'

It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

You weren't created to be unhappy in order to keep everyone else happy. Run your own race.

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking at the bright side of things.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.