Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

When the wind blows, the grass bends.

Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me.

You men deserve whatever rabbit-boiling scenario dating crazy women gets you.

To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.

You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing...

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.