There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

Education is the light which lets us see the universe in a better way. It often lets us understand her incredible beauty.

Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process

If nothing else, I'm a decent quote.

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

In the past there were too many portraits of Chairman Mao in China. They were hung everywhere. That was not proper and it didn't really show respect for Chairman Mao.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again.

It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.

In Africa you have space...there a profound sense of space here, space and sky