We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

In the non-dual state, God, soul and universe are essentially one absolute system which is all-pervading, uncreated, self-luminous and eternal.

The sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.

The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. Its a nice problem to have.

Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women.

I'm really more prolific than most stand-ups. My act changes. I do fold in new experiences, new observations, whatever you want to call it.

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.

Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.