Life is a series of small scale victories and large scale defeats.

When you think you've got it all figured out, then you're probably already headed downhill.

You remember 10% of what you hear, 20% of what you read, and 30% of what you see. However, you do remember 90% of what you hear,see,and do at the same time.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.

Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time.

I am not concerned about the return on my investment; I am concerned about the return OF my investment.

Your life is like a paper bag If you cram to much into it, it tears. Too wet, it has no strength. If you get your head too far inside it, at first you'll feel giddy, but then you'll suffocate. It doesn't need to be fancy to suffice. It will still work if crumpled, but eventually it will end up in the rubbish.

Men don't give their lives in war; governments take them.

Every saint has a past and every sinner a future.

Part of the exercise of being a good person is not using your free time frivously.

Once something is said, it takes on a life of its own.

A committee is a group of the unwilling picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.

I am not a vegetarian because I like animals; I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

Gifts can only take you so far. Eventually we are thrown back onto ourselves.

The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you will surface.

To create is to remember.

Power is the ability to make something happen or to keep it from happening.

Even if I knew I was going to die tomorrow, I would still plant a tree.

A death without mourning is not a death.

On ne sait jamais d'ou viendrait le prochain desir.

What part of No don't you understand?

Citizens vote occasionally; dollars vote continuously.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, put it on the navel of a flea, and still have room left over for an agent's heart and a caraway seed.

Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.

As a rule, not knowing is a step towards knowledge.

Success is never final.

By definition, all politics must end in defeat.

The difference between the material and the spiritual world is precisely that the material can be broken down into smaller and smaller bits, but the soul cannot even be divided into two.

Accident rules every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

The meaning of life is connected, inextricably, to the meaning of death. Mourning is a romance in reverse; and if you love, you grieve, and there are no exceptions. And if death is regarded as an embarassment or an inconvenience, if the dead are regarded as a nuisance from whom we seek a hurried riddance, then life and living are in for similar treatment.

Love is about power felt in a friend.

I am the son of my father and the father of my son. In this way life goes on. I know now there is a meaning. I know now there is a purpose. The world is flesh and idea. The flesh withers, but the idea lives on, and the fuel which keeps the fires of idea burning is love. It is a simple thought, but simple things last. This is the meaning of life. This is God's message for our world.

Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine that the future is more of the present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.

To every man a mystery Sings a different song He fills his page of history Dreams his dreams, and is gone.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

I was born tired�.and I just had a relapse.

He's just like a neutered dog. He just don't get it.

To be bored is to admit you have no inner resources.

The human mind is analagous to a sieve; the process of thinking consists in shaking it until all the subtlest items pass through.

The genius of tragedy and comedy are essentially the same, and they should be written by the same authors.

Give me silence, or something better.

Chance sways all.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a man and a dog.

Money is like muck; not good except it be spread.

There are never in nature two beings which are exactly alike.

The world is not only stranger than we imagine; it is stranger than we CAN imagine.

Politicians are like diapers. They need changing every so often, and for much the same reason.

I am an animal Drawn by precious odours To a caged feast A festival for eyes and mind Enticing both desire and memory To a crescendo of gnawing At madness's threshhold While you... You sit there still-lifeless A fruit entrapped 'Til time's conventions Turn ripeness to rotten.