Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.

You can do anything…but before you can do anything, you have to do something.

Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle.

Regarding war and peace—the seed of each is planted in the other.

Regarding war and peace—the seeds of each are planted in the other.

All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.

We recognize authority based on whether we feel we could attain authority by the rules by which the authority was obtained.

Note from Alien cookbook: “The more intelligent the human is, the better it tastes.

If you can’t be brave in the face of adversity, at least be practical.

Amazing how too much passion in one part of your life can destroy passion in other parts of your life.

If someone tells you that they’re called “blueberries” because they’re berries and they’re blue—believe them.

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

Taste is the most unexplored sense

Expensive clothing is a poor man’s attempt to appear prosperous.

The media has a tremendous bias and has for a very long time against the Republican party and against somebody that happens to be conservative. They certainly have a tremendous bias against me.

You never know what's right, what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

There is no such thing as having attained enough. Life is an endless possibility.

...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

When people are unsettled, loyal ministers arise.

When death occurs, death as you know it, the universe embraces you and takes you to its heart.

We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.