There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

Leadership is the right combination of Integrity and Repect for others.The Success of anyone worth remembering is the TRUTH in their actions~bns

WHEN I WAS LOST IN DARKNESS, I FELT MYSELF LIKE ARMLESS, MY HEART BECOME HOPELESS, ALL I HAD WAS MY WEAKNESS, TILL I FIND MORNING BRIGHTNESS

Wake up call may be a disastrous failure, if it results in a life change, the failure is worth the suffering

There’s still much to do

He went to India to "find himself" last year, but evidently he wasn't there, and he came back empty-handed.

This was how the world ended. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.

I trust no one who hasn’t time for music.

Cause there was a time when all I did was wish You'd tell me this was love. It's not the way I hoped Or how I planned But somehow it's enough.