We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.

The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.

The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

When one person mentors, two lives are changed.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.