You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

I release all control to the Universe. I am at peace with myself and with life.

Ain't no mountain that I can't climb, baby

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.