My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.

Don't ever let others impose their self-limiting beliefs on to you. They don't have the courage and spirit that you do.

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

I'm off the rails, tipping the scales, following the trail, delving into my own custom made form of outer space.

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.

Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.

I've grown extremely tired of the face of the world.

Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.

I am pretty good about taking breaks. I know when it's time to step aside and chill out.

If you're going to solve a weight-loss problem - or smoking problem for that matter - you must address both the psychological and physiological.