The truth is, people don't stay the same. People either get better or they get worse.

Since most problems are created by our imagination and are thus imaginary, all we need are imaginary solutions.

Sometimes people say,' One day you are going to look back at this and laugh.' My question is:' Why wait?

You know what ? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason

The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.

Brains aren't designed to get results; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

The easier you can make it inside your head, the easier it will make things outside your head.

You are born with only two fears: fear of falling and fear of loud noise. All the rest is learned. And it's a lot of work!

The best thing about the past is that it's over. The best thing about the future is that it's yet to come. The best thing about the present is that it's here now.

The reason people have problems is that they have too much time to think.

Learning is about looking at things differently, making your life a little better everyday.

..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!

I want to give the people a lot more, and be able to perform more than just my one single and all my old songs.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

I'm a sinner. I fumble. People must see me as one of them. The things that worry them, must worry me

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.