Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
Boards don't hit back.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.