sometimes the only thing wrong with you is thinking something's wrong with you.

You're not here just to make a living but for appreciating and expressing gratitude for the abundance and beauty of life that you are enjoying.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.

It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

I don't like finished things, because finished is over, dead.

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

I'm an accidental writer.