Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

We came to this world with two wealths, love and hope, but, in the end, love is our only wealth.

Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty.

Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.

I dreamed that I was being raped by Freddy Mercury.

Sometimes I feel like nothin,' somethin' throwed away, Somethin' throwed away. And then I get my guitar, play the blues all day.

I like a girl who knows what she wants and makes me work for her