I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.