Brian Thompson

True freedom is being free from the search for freedom.

[On leaving Brooklyn] I left the day I graduated high school.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Smugglin’ that by me? That’s like tryin’ to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.

We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time.

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

This morning I woke with my ear pressed between shoulder blades. Every inhale, every drum, every pump, thump of your heartbeat said one thing – home, home, home.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Every situation needs a hero. Step up and be that for your child.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

The partnership of mind and matter is one which has existed since the beginning of time and cannot be dissolved.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.