Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?

The greatest success is to live the life of your dreams.

Never underestimate the power of telling a teenage boy he's risking his chances of getting laid. Works almost every time.

I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.

Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business

Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that’s a great compliment for us.

I don't like those shows where people get eliminated every week, and then they have to get meaner to survive.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

I asked him "Who said you could fool around with my wife" he said everybody.