When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Whose little boy are you?

Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.

That is always our problem not how to get control of people but how all together we can get control of a situation.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.

I am running for re-election no matter who runs.

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Clothes make the body both mysterious and historical.