When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

If you, free as you are of every weighthad stayed below, then that would be as strangeas living flame on earth remaining still."And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.

We have every confidence that earth and hell will not overtake you, but it will require that you move from your current plateaus and climb to higher ground.

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.

I think it is important to be aware that the Internet has replaced the television, and has become a place where the uniformity of human society is accelerated.