Mr. Randy Watson

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• Arlington, VA, US

You all know him as Joe the policeman, from the "What's Going Down" episode of "That's My Mama", ladies and gentlemen give it up for Jackson Heights own, Mr. Randy Watson!

I believe the children are the future... (thank you!) ...teach them right and let them lead the way...

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of great people; seek what they sought."
-- Matsuo Basho

"Hard work is our life -- we provide it joyfully."

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom."
"Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
-- Lao Tzu

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
-- Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
-- John F. Kennedy

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."
-- Maureen Dowd

"The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart."
-- The Dalai Lama

"You lose a lot of time hating people."
-- Marian Anderson

"Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like."
-- Swami Vivekananda

"All truth goes through three stages:
1) It is ridiculed.
2) It is violently opposed.
3) It is accepted as self-evident"
-- Schopenhauer

[in regards to leaving a place you've been for a long time with all of your possessions...]
"A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun."
(from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran)

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
-- Mark Twain

"Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge."

"If anyone can take your dream away from you, it wasn't your dream in the first place.
-- Dean Kosage

"Beware the lollipop of mediocrity, lick it once... and you'll suck forever..."

"If I am dreaming, let me never awake -- If I am awake, let me never sleep... "

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
-- Gandhi

"Seven years in the flick of a finger -- no word of complaint against hardship. The elements cannot prevent your toil and labor towards such a higher goal. Keep the suffering of the world in my heart...
...I have to go on to serve everyone, out of the compassion in my heart."
-- Shi Yan Ming

"Apathy is the glove into which evil lays its hand."

"Everyone falls in love. Only those who live love intensely and fully can survive the vulgarity of existence."

"I believe the doctor of the future will be a teacher as well as a physician. His real job will be to teach people how to be healthy."
--Dr. D.C. Jarvis

"Happiness is wanting what you have -- not having what you want."

"Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worth while, so when you are lonley, remember it's true, somebody, somewhere, is thinking of you."
-- D'Anne Bucy

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person."
-- Dave Barry

"I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking."
-- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"Work as though you had a thousand years to live and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow."
(an old saying from the Shakers of Geneseo Valley)

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music."
-- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"Kindness is for all times in all situations -- not just when it suits you."
-- Audray Landrum

"What is the purpose of life? ------ To be the eyes, and ears, and conscience of the creator of the universe; you fool."
(from Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut)

"Coincidence, if traced far enough back, becomes inevitable."
-- Hineu

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work & play"
-- Arnold Toynbee

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
-- Gilbert Perreira

"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously."
-- Charles F. Kettering

Traditional Wing Chun has its own philosophical creed:
- He who excels as a warrior does not appear formidable.
- One who excels in fighting is never aroused in anger.
- One who excels in defeating his enemy does not join issues.
- One who excels in employing others humbles himself before them.
- This is the virtue of non-contention and matching the sublimity of heaven.

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
-- Benjamin Franklin

If you want to follow your dreams and make them come true -- the first thing you have to do is: Wake Up.
-- Bill Cosby

"What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Greatest Wealth is Health.

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."
-- Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire

"Love not what you are, but what you may become."
-- Miguel De Cervantes

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
-- Walt Disney

"I never let school interfere with my education."
-- Mark Twain

"We are today. Why should our style be old?"

"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much."
-- Walter Lippmann

"You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"I find television very educational -- everytime someone turns it on, I go in the other room to read a book."
-- Groucho Marx

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
-- Aristotle (BC 384-322)

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers -- he poses the right questions."
-- Claude Levi-Strauss

It is said...
- If you want to know what you were doing in the past... look at your body now.
- If you want to know what will happen to you in the future... look at what your mind is doing now.
-- the Dalai Lama

"Goals and contingencies are important. But they exist in the future and the past, beyond the pale of the sensory realm. ----------- Practice (the path of mastery) exists only in the present. You can see it, hear it, smell it, feel it. ---------To love the plateau is to love the eternal now, to enjoy the inevitable spurts of progress and the fruits of accomplishment, then serenely to accept the new plateau that waits just beyond them. To love the plateau is to love what is most esssential and enduring in your life."
( from Mastery by George Leonard)

The secret is: the people we know as masters don't devote themselves to their particular skill just to get better at it. The truth is, they love to practice and because of this they do get better. And then to complete the circle, the better they get the more they enjoy performing the basic movies over & over again.

For everything you want in life, there is a price you must pay, in full and in advance. Decide what you really want and then determine the price you'll have to pay to achieve it. Remember, to achieve something you've never achieved before -- you must do something you have never done before. You must become someone who you have never been before. Whatever you want you'll have to pay a price measured in terms of: sacrifice, time, effort and personal discipline. Decide what it is and start paying that price today.
(from The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success by Brian Tracy)

"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
-- Joseph Heller

"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night."
--Bill Watterson

"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left."
-- Oscar Levant

"Nature itself is the best physician"
-- Hippocrates

"Success leaves clues..."
-- Tony Robbins

"Everybody can be great....
because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. your don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

"One must be patient like the earth. What inequities are being perpetrated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all. Man, too, should be like that."
-- Sri Sarada Devi (the Holy Mother)

"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."
-- Peter Ustinov

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
-- Francis Bacon

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
-- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5

"Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny."
-- Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)

"When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong -- or absolutely right."
-- Albert Guinon

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
-- Howard Zinn

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Violent means will give violent freedom."
-- Gandhi

"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."
-- Archibald Macleish

"I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us... if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do."
-- Christopher Reeve

"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."
-- G. H. Hardy

"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."
-- Albert Einstein

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
-- Gandhi

"Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes."
-- Bette Midler

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
-- Carl Gustav Jung

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
-- Albert Einstein

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
-- Galileo

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurptions."
-- James Madison

"All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves."
-- Bill Hicks

"We are like droplets of water in an ocean of consciousness; individual to an extent, but those droplets together make up the ocean -- without the droplets there is no ocean. It is the same with this infinite energy mind we call creation/god. We are not part of that infinity -- we are that infinity if we open ourselves up to reconnect with it. Wherever you stand in infinity, you are at the center of infinity. So everything that exists is everything that exists. I am everything that exists; and so are you -- the more you realize that, the more you open up to the full infinity of who you are."

"The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding."
-- the Kybalion

"I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work."
-- George Carlin

"If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him."
-- George Carlin

"Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward."
-- George Carlin

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
-- George Orwell

"Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it."
-- Chuang-tse

"This is a revolution, dammit! We've got to offend somebody!"
-- John Adams

"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."
-- Howard Aiken

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."
-- Frank Tibolt

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
-- George Orwell

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
-- Chinese Proverb

"Wealth in its nobler aspects is not an unworthy theme. There is nothing desirable or honorable in penury, nothing praiseworthy or attractive in want or dependence. Indigence leads not to intellectual culture or to a lofty standard of morality. Purity is not the offspring of poverty, but comes of that cleanliness of soul which is akin to godliness."
(from The Book of Wealth by Hubert Howe Bancroft)


"Preperation is the part of the iceberg that is beneath the surface. It is not apparent; but it is essential."


People today have forgotten, they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists -- they may be smart, but most don't understand the heart of nature; they only invent things that in the end make people unhappy. Yet they are so proud of their inventions. What's worse, most people are too. They view them as if they were miracles. They worship them. They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water -- and the trees and grass that produce them. Everything is being dirtied... polluted forever. Dirty air, dirty water... dirtying the hearts of men.

"Jokes on them -- I'm still alive!"
-- Homer Simpson


"The waking state, sleep with dream state, and deep sleep state are the three states of the average person's life; back and forth between these states they go at least once or twice every day of their life. They don't experience the fourth state - Atman, the light of infinite consciousness - until the body is worn out and forced to drop, and the event of death occurs.

To a state of consciousness that has only been accustomed to cycling back and forth between the waking, dream, and deep sleep states, this event is so profound and so alarming that it isn't remembered - like a blackout between the moment of death and the moment of rebirth. We can't remember the conditions of past lives, can't remember dying, can barely remember being born.

Meditation is the way in which one prepares oneself to experience infinite consciousness, to meet God. This is no different than anything else you've learned to do in this life; by directing your attention fully to the matter at hand, you gain awareness and understanding of that which you are seeking."
-- Mark Griffin


Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night,
We are led to believe a lie.
-- Blake

"I do not wish them to have power over men
but over themselves"
-- Mary Shelley

"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep;
and yet a third of life is passed in sleep"
-- Byron

"Taught from infancy that beauty is the woman's sceptre; the mind reshapes itself to the body."
-- Wollstonecraft

"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil,
a usurption upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
-- Godwin

The world is too much with us
late and soon,
getting and spending,
we lay waste our powers;
little we see in Nature that is ours;
we have given our hearts away,
-- Wordsworth

"I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light."
-- Isaac Newton

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred with dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly... who knows the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have known neither victory nor defeat."
-- Teddy Roosevelt

"Security is mostly a superstition, it does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it -- avoiding danger is no safer in the long-run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
-- Helen Keller

"One who meditates upon and realizes the self discovers that everything in the cosmos-- energy and space, fire and water, name and form, birth and death, mind and will, word and deed, mantram and meditation--all come from the Self."
-- Chandogya Upanishad

"Seek the good in everyone, and reveal it, bring it forth."
-- Nahman of Bratslav

"Practice."
-- Sun Lu Tang

"Everything should be made as simple as possible--but not simpler."
-- Albert Einstein

"Even if you are a monk, if your practice of the Way is not intense, if your aspiration is not pure, how are you any different from a layman? Again, even if you are a layman, if your aspiration is intense and your conduct wise, why is this any different from being a monk?"
-- Hakuin

"Some people are quick to start looking at this stuff while others are either scared away or just unable to confront it. Don't be afraid of knowledge. The facts are the facts, denying them or looking the other way won't make them go away. Be positive about it, just realize that the world is much more interesting than you were ever taught in school. As they say, fact is stranger than fiction. If you like mysteries, this is as good as it gets! If not, look into it anyway, your close future depends on it. Changes need to be made now. Once enough people know and a critical mass is reached, action will inevitably need to be taken."

"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked."
-- Voltaire

"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance."
-- Albert Einstein

"Guard against anger erupting in body; in body, be restrained. Having abandoned bodily misconduct, live conducting yourself well in body.-- Guard against anger erupting in speech; in speech, be restrained. Having abandoned verbal misconduct, live conducting yourself well in speech."
-- Dhammapada, 17, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

"If any man was wronged by another and he neither rebukes, nor hates, nor bears a grudge against him, but forgives him with his whole heart, this is a saintly virtue..."
-- Code of Jewish Law

"We learn something by doing it. There is no other way."
-- John Holt

"Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce... And when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate."
-- James Garfield

"The eradication of the craving for personal separateness is Liberation."
-- Sankara

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
19th Century U.S. author and physician

"If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
-- Oscar Wilde

"An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, there's the superhero, and there's the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker. When he wakes up in the morning, he's Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-Man. And it is in that characteristic that Superman stands alone. Superman did not become Superman, Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red "S", that's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears, the glasses, the business suit, that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He's weak, he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race."
-- Bill from Kill Bill Vol. 2

" 'Peace of Mind' comes when a person is 'Centered.' Centered-ness comes from Certainty. Certainty comes from the recognition of patterns. So the stability of your 'Peace of Mind' is directly related to your degree of certainty.

Blind faith, in my opinion, is not certainty but an obstruction of any facts that might undercut the faith. Thus creating a limit to one’s true Peace of Mind.

This in turn is the generator of all types of defensive measures including wars, to protect one’s personal faith in how things are or ought to be. We’ve gone down that road far enough don’t you think? "
-- Ian Xel Lungold

"The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflecting all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected in the dark sea of time."


"Don't be heedless of merit
('It won't come to me').
A water jar fills,
even with water falling in drops.
With merit—even if bit by bit,
habitually—the enlightened one fills himself full."
-- Dhammapada, 9, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

On this ever-revolving wheel of being
The individual self goes round and round
Through life after life, believing itself
To be a separate creature, until
It sees its identity with the Lord of Love
And attains immortality in the indivisible whole.
-- Shvetashvatara Upanishad

"If in the darkness of ignorance,
you don’t recognize a person’s true nature,
look to see whom he has chosen for his leader."
-- Rumi, "Mathnawi" [IV, 1640]

"Let me tell you about the middle path. Dressing in rough and dirty garments, letting your hair grow matted, abstaining from eating any meat or fish, does not cleanse the one who is deluded. Mortifying the flesh through excessive hardship does not lead to a triumph over the senses. All self-inflicted suffering is useless as long as the feeling of self is dominant.

You should lose your involvement with yourself and then eat and drink naturally, according to the needs of your body. Attachment to your appetites--whether you deprive or indulge them--can lead to slavery, but satisfying the needs of daily life is not wrong. Indeed, to keep a body in good health is a duty, for otherwise the mind will not stay strong and clear.

This is the middle path."
-- Discourse II

"Spontaneous, true action happens naturally when there is no "you" checking whether the action conforms to your idea of what is best for you."
-- Ramesh Balsekar

"The realization that another person wishes to harm and hurt you cannot undermine genuine compassion--a compassion based on the clear recognition of that person as someone who has the natural and instinctual desire to seek happiness and overcome suffering, just like oneself."
-- The Dalai Lama


"A major % of masters are simply keeping you (that is keeping one, anyone) from experiencing their own power by convincing them that only masters have power -- for a fee. What about Buddha, LaoTze, Jesus, Mohammad? They all become luminaries, not because of the fact that they found and studied with their masters, but because they dumped the masters and went direct to their own cosmic or universal connection.

I would sincerely suggest you simply pursue your own practice within a context that assumes the great secrets are not 'out there' somewhere."


"So fragile are memories, composed of the settling dust of former presents - if one so much as whispers of such too loudly, he finds them cast amongst uncertain breaths. Perhaps most are best left behind subconcious viewing glasses to be photographed in solitude or watched on rapid eye VCRs. Here I am left directed by one ways toward the future and I wish nothing but to get lost in the rearview horizons. "
-- "the trouble" -- excerpt -- vi.xxi


"A prophet is never recognized in his own home town"


"While practicing generosity, we should always remember how very fortunate we are to have this opportunity."
-- Gomo Tulku

"The same law that shapes living creatures and galaxies is inherent in the mentation and activities of human societies."
-- Frost & Prechter, "Elliot Wave Principle"

"Listen to the sound of water. Listen to the water running through chasms and rocks. It is the minor streams that make a loud noise; the great waters flow silently. -- The hollow resounds and the full is still. Foolishness is like a half-filled pot; the wise man is a lake full of water."
-- Sutta Nipata


"…man differs from the animal by the fact that he is a killer; he the only primate that kills and tortures members of his own species without any reason, either biological or economic, and who feels satisfaction in doing so. It is this biologically non-adaptive and non-phylogenetically programmed "malignant" aggression that constitutes the real problem and the danger to man’s existence as a species.

…The most ample – and horrifying – documentation for seemingly spontaneous forms of destructiveness are on the record of civilized history. The history of war is a report of ruthless and indiscriminate killing and torture, whose victims were men, women, and children. Many of these occurrences give the impression of orgies of destruction, in which neither conventional nor genuinely moral factors had any inhibitory effect… There is hardly a destructive act human imagination could think of that has not been acted out again and again"
-- Erich Fromm (Anatomy of Human Destructiveness)

"Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the Buddha...Using the mind to look for reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation."
-- Bodhidharma

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

"A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
-- Gian Vincenzo Gravina

"Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields."
-- Peter Borden

"A way is made by walking it. A thing is so by calling it."

"Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument."

"Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!"

"What good is a man's knowledge unless it prompts him to Prevent the pain of others as if it were his own pain?"
-- Tirukkural

"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."
-- Dalai Lama

"You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
-- Robin Williams

I implored the sage in earnest last night to unveil the mysteries of the universe. He whispered softly in my ear, "Silence! It is something to perceive but never to say."
-- Rumi

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."
-- William S. Burroughs

"Art is science made clear."
-- Jean Cocteau

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
-- Oscar Wilde

"I'm not getting this knowledge to go on Jeopardy -- I've got shit to do..."
-- Raj Gupta

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."
-- Mary Wilson Little

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
-- James Baldwin

"Forget likes and dislikes, they are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may noy be happiness, but it is greatness."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"Have you ever noticed how the very instant you finally get your relationship together, something new falls apart? Did you know it's designed that way? Life takes you to ever-greater levels of understanding, and the fastest growth occurs right at the border of chaos & order. Realize that you've grown into the next level of chaos and are being given greater challenges because you have a greater capacity. If you're sitting still in a life of ease, you're actually dis-easing, decaying and breaking down. You want to constantly be on the edge of life."
-- Dr. John F. Demartini

"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."
-- Thomas H. Huxley

"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."
-- Edith Sitwell

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
-- Dr. Seuss

"It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously."
-- Peter Ustinov

"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs."
-- Vance Havner

"Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision."
-- Penn Jillette

"We make ourselves rich by making our wants few."
-- Henry David Thoreau