If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

Dream anything hard enough, and it can be yours.

You have strength born of years of grief and anger... The strength of a man denied revenge.

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even if you didn't have any credits, in two minutes flat you would know.