Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.

Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself—more birds than women flocking round his body!

They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay. That´s it.

Be confident, be bold!

A lot of people would think I have led this easy kind of charmed life, or maybe even a fairytale in some ways. But it has been anything but that.

A smile is a curve that can straighten out a lot of problems.

Unless you completely understand the investment world, do not mess around with it. It is not something I would go anywhere near.

Medical science begin to notice for good health, peace of mind, self-confidence, optimism is something very important. And also preventive measure.

To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.

By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.

I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet.

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it