This is the funniest book I’ve ever held in my hands. --Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize winning humorist and author says about Radical Sabbatical

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

Ask open ended questions. Pull out the pain and the hurt your prospect is experiencing.

Mystery is not profoundness.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.

There is something that can be found in one place. It is a great treasure which may be called the fulfillment of existence. The place where this treasure can be found is the place where one stands

Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.

There's more to life then living, so hold on.

The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born.