You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.

Every great thing that's ever been achieved started with the belief that it could be.

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.

Listen to the arts of kids, their hands when tied have wings.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better a little better.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.

My father (Danny Thomas) used to tell me there are two kinds of people, the takers and the givers. 'The takers sometimes eat better,' he would say, 'but the givers always sleep better.'