"Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners."

“Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.”

“Fact: If you don’t have an effective plan for selling, any business you get is accidental.”

“A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.”

“First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.”

Source : Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

“I don't much mind being expelled from communities.”

“But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a characterization.”

“And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your act. Whatever is happening in your life is what's going on on stage. So if you're angry in your life, then that's going to be on stage. If you're looking for the guy that's just going to make you laugh for an hour and forget about, that's me.”

Source : "The Joy Behar Show", www.cnn.com. October 17, 2011.

“See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth.”