The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high country exists.

The general rule is that people who enjoy life also enjoy marriage.

I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.

Lyrics have got to be simple and catchy. A hook is more important than an overall concept or story.

Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there?

Find things that shine and move toward them.

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

From the evening I was saved, I began to live a new life, for the life of the eternal God had entered into me.