Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

Let the mechanics of desire bring your fulfilment without interference.the more you interfere, the less likely you will get what you want.

From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

People are timid. They don't take chances. Naturally, they're bound. They are afraid of the light. They are afraid of their own power. In the land of willpower, anything is possible.

As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.

There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.

When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not apart.

The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.