All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

The examined life is no picnic.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.

With Cosmic Ordering you will never eat humble pie again.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).

For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.

As a writer, its important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.

Oh, cold world -- I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms.

Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that

Men feared witches and burned women.

I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.