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Substituting the discount rate for the ever increasing chance of death and a dollar for joy, joy today is worth more than joy tomorrow.

I love to play. When I'm off, I feel a little lost - like, shouldn't I be on stage somewhere?

I haven't been one since I did a film called (coughs) Encino Man (laughing). After two or three runs with Pauly Shore, I had enough. ...

An organization's success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to assets, expertise, operating ...

Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

Just because yu can't prove it doesn't mean it isn't true

You may be a Founding Father and all that, but you still leave an occasional skidmark in your underdrawers.

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

When I am spotted somewhere, it means that my characterizations haven't covered up Eleanor Parker the person. I prefer it the other way around.

... the more I seek, the less I find.

There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.

In the absence of Death, In the presence of Death, Only one thing remains, It is Love.

Getting closer to God might mean getting told to love someone I don't even like, or to give away even more of my money. It ...

You have to quit keeping this tab in your head of what you lost and what you won. Because then you miss the journey.

The Supreme Court has declared the police are not under obligation to save individual citizens from crime.

It's not fair that our dogs don't have longer lives. When I get to heaven, I intend to scold God for that.

An island of surety in a changing world.

Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there.

Hello, mouth. This is foot. Now choke on that shit.

Part of why kids like this scared me was that they seemed authentic.

A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.

We need to uncover better ways to improve and retrospectives can provide the solution.

Fear cannot stay in the same house as Jesus Christ.

Tobin had spent the first twelve years of his life living a lie, and the last two trying to ignore the truth.

Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait ...

I'm a teacher! A teacher, Potter! How dare yeh threaten ter break down my door!""I'm sorry, sir," said Harry, emphasizing the last word.Hagrid looked stunned. ...

He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the ...

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter ...

For GOD is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything.

How much easier everything would be if that were so. But Kestrel wouldn't let herself consider the truth. She didn't want to know its shape ...

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow ...

At no point did I form the conscious intention of founding an ad hoc university in my sitting room. It happened, as it were, by ...

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

I don't just want to be successful I want to have fun.

I don't know why liberals want to disarm the law-abiding population, but I do know that not a single argument proffered stands the light of ...

You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do.

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

I need a break. I've been working for about a year and a half. I think I'd like to go to Pakistan.

Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps ...

Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither ...

You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do.

We should take notice of that in others which is good, to their praise, that by so doing we may lay engagements upon them to ...

I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're ...

Is there a chance?A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel?A reason to fight?Is there a chance you may change your mind?Or are ...

I'm not a pretty goalie and I don't ever want to be called one, to tell you the truth.

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially ...

Each time you sit down to write, you should cleanse your linguistic palate by reading some things that are vastly unlike what you've been writing. ...

We both know it is too temptingto leave a trail wherever you go:an echo into the dark screaming 'I was here, I was here and ...

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

Before social media, we shouted at our TV sets.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.

All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far forth be justly ...

His eyes have the wrong effect on me. They grind me to a powder and his smile is the breath that sends me in all ...

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.

How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, ...

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or ooh baby ... The stuff that ...

She simply stared at me, her dark gaze practically piercing my soul. A tangle of emotions tightened in my chest.

What I'm doing when I'm doing my speaking engagements is that I'm delivering serious material with humor. So, instead of delivering humor without a particular ...

The Danes are causing a bit of trouble. The kingdom of Denmark claimed the North Pole as their own. Hey, you can't just reach out ...

The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

By the time they got home, they were both thoroughly bilingual in cursing. *

My nails clawed against the smooth tiles as I pushed up onto my hands and knees. I rose unsteadily to my feet.Speed is my ally. ...

We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn ...

Nothing is ever truly gone ... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some ...

When we wrap God's truth around us, it protects us by strengthening our core being.

I'm an old-fashioned guy.

Love to love, connection to connection, you carve your complicated path through life; leave one love behind, and the next one always seems out of ...

Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The ...

In mythic terms, the earth is a place of mystery and wonder where life always hangs by a thread and all the events of history ...

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

Contents Book the First - Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If ...

One soul, the Saviour, changes the course of history.

You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Sometimes the real looks fake, especially when you've looked at the fake for so long.

Eventually, Leon's voice limps from his chest and staggers out of his mouth.

It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. ...

Greenwich Village ... the village of low rents and high arts.

She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

Carlin does a rare thing for a self-help book: gives useful guidance by supplying readers with the tools necessary for change." --Barry Silverstein, "Foreword Reviews

I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials ... I'd say things like, 'Hi, Marge, how's your laundry?' and 'Hi, I'm ...

Everybody is a main character to someone...

Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the ...

Meanwhile, the kale market grew by 40% in 2013 alone. The biggest purchaser of kale the year before had been Pizza Hut, which put it ...

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

She grabbed his arm. "Let it be, son!" she cried. "That child ain't hurt!" "Not hurt! You look into her eyes and tell me she ...

AS one instructs others,So should one do oneself:Only the self-controlled should restrain others.Truly, it's hard to restrain oneself.

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.

When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, ...

It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium,It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums.It's no go the ...

I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander ...

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential

Dancing up the full moonRound some fair new altarTrample the soft blossoms of fine grass.