"One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune."

“[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.”

“It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.”

“I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.”

Source : Post-election statement in 1964. "Ancestral Passions: The leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings". Book by Virginia Morell. Chapter 19, 1995.

“The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of - knowing that they'll make it on the DVD.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The Bible teaches that we are to love people and use money, but we often get that reversed and you start loving money and using people to get more money. Money is simply a tool to be used for good.”

“I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is to move from one vein to the other without any trouble. The biggest thing to me is keeping a feeling, regardless what you play. So many cats lose their feeling at various times, not through the whole tune, but at various times, and it causes them to have to build up and drop down, and you can feel it.”

“When lifes seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness.”

“I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.”