"Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens."

"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."

"Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys."

"I don't like food that's too carefully arranged it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting."

"To live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a essential truth that wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I just feel my best when I'm all glammed up."

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."