We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.

Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, everything that's wonderful, Is sure to come your way

A zebra does not change its spots.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

The unfed mind devours itself.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

The most difficult door to open is the entrance to an ignorant mind.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

You go to other countries and you look at industries they have, and you say, let me see your regulations, and they're a fraction, just a tiny fraction of what we have.

We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.

Civility is not a sign of weakness.

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.

I'm in between homes right now, but my last house was dope.

There can be no joy without gratitude.

I never really spent time being jealous. Maybe I should have.