You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

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.

I can only strive for what is important

If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

I would love for the world to have a dog psychology center everywhere.

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

Stand on the stage in front of 15 people or 15,000. Have them look up to you and tell you how wonderful you are, and if you don't think that's a great feeling, okay, then you're unlike me.

My mother says I have boring percussion.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.