Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective

Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.

No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best we can ever do is try.

It’s not what others have said that hurt us the most. It’s the lies we believed about ourselves that caused us the most pain and hurt.

My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'?

I got a zero. That’s like a perfect ten—it’s only one away from being flawless. Remember this next time you think you have nothing.

There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.

A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling.

To speak from a societal perspective on things is neccessary although it's down from the spiritual. Physical and spiritual have a bigger picture.

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.

Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.