They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

No one can bring to God what you can.

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.

Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.

He didn't care whose league Jordan was in. All that mattered was that she was his.

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.