Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

You are called and only you can fulfill your calling

If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

Public trust is essential to public safety.

Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists.

To be the world No. 1 has always been a dream for me.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

I would love to play a 1940's style fast-talking reporter lady. That's probably the dream.

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

One thing I learned from his holiness the Dali Lama is the importance of humor.

I sighed and gestured toward him. "I'll take him." In an undertone, I added, "Don't let me down, Zmey.