"Nobody's too fat - they're just too short."

“Mr. President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.”

Source : "NRA: 'Only Thing That Stops A Bad Guy With A Gun Is A Good Guy With A Gun'". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, Peter Overby, www.npr.org. December 21, 2012.

“Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.”

“You don't feel the need to talk all the time, do you," she said. He smiled. "No." "Most people don't know how to appreciate silence. They can't help talking." "I talk, I just want to have something to say first.”

“I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.”

“Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .”

Source : Luther Burbank (1927). “My Beliefs”

“I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.”

“Madness is consistent; which is more than can be said for poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time continues equally so throughout the whole delirium, though it should last for life. Madmen are always constant in love; which no man in his senses ever was. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy; but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.”

“Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.”