The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the universe -- I think that word would be paradox. That's true at the subatomic level, right through sociological, psychological, philosophical levels on up to cosmic levels.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.