Heaven is a place where all the dogs you've ever loved come to greet you.

Dogs are angels full of poop.

To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

The choiceless truth of who you are is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything. Not a thing and not separate from anything.

95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.

There is a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride, beyond mere skill, almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art - which is art.

I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.

If we are desperate, though , if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.

It's really exciting. It's really exciting when you do a piece of work, and people like it, and it gets noticed.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.