"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation."

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

"All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look."

"For verily, my brothers, the spirit is a stomach."

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from."

"Take most people, they're crazy about cars. I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake."

"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few."

"My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow."

"It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes."

"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence."