There are more beauty parlors than there are beauties.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self.

The path up and down is one and the same.

She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name.

When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.

Mel: What was your name again? Rain: Rain. Mel: Oh that's nice. Kind of like bad weather.

It's not that I don't like pants, I just choose not to wear them some days.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.