A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.

No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it.

Time is not money; time is an opportunity to live before you die. So a man who walks, and lives and sees and thinks as he walks, has lengthened his life.

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

After all, time is not money. It is an opportunity to live before you die.

All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest footwork for this calling, be it amateur's or professional's.

As soon as you wink, you close your eyes to reality.

I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.

The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.

I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.

I couldn't stop to be upset or depressed about anything when I was at Tiger Stadium with Billy Crystal shooting for three weeks. I was going to enjoy every second - even though apparently I didn't.

The moment you stop learning you're dying.

When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers.

Nothing can be wrong but your own personal attitude.