One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly

As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.

Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.

I am blind -- but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' . . . I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.

You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

Now I tell you the downside of this is you feel awful, but the upside is you feel terrific.

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.

Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie.

I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.

We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.

Eat what you desire, but dress like other people.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

Obsess about the next customer, not only the ones you have.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.

I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.

You have a dizzying intellect.