Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy.

Create hell and people will be impatient to get there, just out of curiosity

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.

John, what are you doing? John, my diet soda. What are you doing?

If you look deeply inside them you'll only see eternity; whereas with most human beings, when you look inside, you'll see all kinds of different things.

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.

It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.

Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.