Quotes by Beck

“I read one psychologist's theory that said "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the B...”

“Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.”

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”

“The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste coveting one another's desserts hiding shampoo locking each other out of our rooms i...”

“You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.”

“Habit is a great deadener.”

“Happiness is not a station to arrive at but a manner of traveling.”

“I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.”

“A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good to which we are entitled we must give of that which we have.”

“One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.”

“My mother phones daily to ask "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no she adds "So if you're not too busy call me while I'm still alive " . . . and hangs up.”

“Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.”

“But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why some days it's so quiet you don't even know it's there.”

“Happiness is not a state to arrive at but a manner of traveling.”

“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.”

“If you are swept off your feet it's time to get on your knees.”

“Time is the only critic without ambition.”

“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.”

“I am not a glutton-I am an explorer of food.”

“We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.”