Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

You can't be spontaneous within reason.

I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.

In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

Theres nothing better than keeping fit. It gives me energy and helps me think more clearly.