We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.

Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

Racing is a calling, a passion.

Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married.

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.