Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things.

Just when the butterfly thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will.

Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.

I will fight for budget honesty and eliminating the deficit to reduce the transfer of debt to younger generations.

I go where the lizards tell me.

Now, I think the people who are still doing stand-up are doing it because they love stand-up.