“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential — as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.”

“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential — as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.”

“You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.”

“I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin”

“The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.”

“Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running. ”

“Mothers are the necessity of invention.”

“If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”

“I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.”

“Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?”

“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”

“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.”