When you give, give with joy and smiling.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

People who give the best are those who give of themselves – your time, talents, words, knowledge.

They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?

Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.

I tend to ... if I decide to do a job, want to be able to trust my director...

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did... well, he could deal with Charles

Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.

National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.

Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.