When I listen to those tapes now, the real cocaine shows; there's just nothing special about their content.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies.

Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.

I trust all joy

It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

The opposite of nature is impossible.

The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless.