You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Give up trying to make me give up

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.