Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel its presence, and see its results in the lives of successful people.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'