"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

"Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse."

"Why is it when we talk to God we're praying -- but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?"

"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them."

"What's reality anyway? Nothing but a collective hunch."

"Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world."

"Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself."

"Feeding the starving poor only increases their number."

"The greatest giver of alms is cowardice."

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."

"She is the least benightedly unintelligent organic lifeform it has ever been my distinct lack of pleasure not to have been able to avoid meeting."