You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

There is no doubt that my lawyer is honest. For example, when he filed his income tax return last year, he declared half of his salary as 'unearned income.'

What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

A woman who is unfaithful deserves to be shot.

Monterey... is decidedly the pleasantest and most civilized-looking place in California ... [it] is also a great place for cock-fighting, gambling of all sorts, fandangos, and various kinds of amusements and knavery.

Being a miner, as soon as you're too old and tired and sick and stupid to do your job properly, you have to go, where the very opposite applies with the judges.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

There is no proverb that is not true.

Bullwinkle: You just leave that to my pal. He's the brains of the outfit. General: What does that make YOU? Bullwinkle: What else? An executive.

Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

Genius is pain.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

Never have so many understood so little about so much.

Your wig steers the gig.

The use of money is all the advantage there is to having money.

Don't guess

Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

An older student came to Otis and said, "I have been to see a great number of teachers and I have given up a great number of pleasures. I have fasted, been celibate and stayed awake nights seeking enlightenment. I have given up everything I was aske

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those.

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

Hollywood is where if you don't have happiness you send out for it.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Innovation is hard to schedule.

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

"You can't survive by sucking the juice from a wet mitten."

Well, the handwriting is on the floor.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.

[District Attorneys] learn in District Attorney School that there are two sure-fire ways to get a lot of favorable publicity: (1) Go down and raid all the lockers in the local high school and confiscate 53 marijuana cigarettes and put them in a

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.

Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Art is Nature speeded up and God slowed down.

The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

What one fool can do, another can.

per year.

You can never do just one thing.

When you die, you lose a very important part of your life.

... but as records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witch