STONE: Om Mani Padme Hum, baby!

“To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

STONE: The Incredible Shrinking Man

And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. – From “The Incredible Shrinking Man,” screenplay by Richard Matheson and Richard Alan Simmons On Sept. 23, I told you I was 2.

STONE: Put Greene, Morgan and Putnam in your starting lineup

All that is gold does not glitter, and Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

STONE: Hexes, curses and just plain bad luck

My only feeling about superstition is that it’s unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. – Duffy Daugherty, Michigan State football coach Did you notice how effectively I put a hex on the Atlanta Braves last week?

STONE: Moe, Larry, the cheese! Moe, Larry, the cheese!

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to the light. Double, double toil and trouble: Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. – Shakespeare, Macbeth Warning: The following column may contain pop culture references you have to Google.

Stone: The natural progression of a football fan

Don’t worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon. – John Madden Before we get started, I want to announce that I am 4.8 pounds away from pizza. I recently set myself a weight-loss goal that when reached will allow me to reward myself with something other than mushrooms and mung beans.

Stone: Can you soup up an electric car?

My cup holder’s happy, my tank is full. My engine’s running like a Brahma bull. My bumpers are polished and talk about luck. I just got a date with an ice cream truck. – Tow Mater, from Cars In my early 20s, I got a job working for a retail establishment called Handy Auto Parts.

STONE: Self-promotion, self-esteem and narcissism

When you combine natural narcissism with the basic need for self-esteem, you create a creature who has to feel himself an object of primary value: first in the universe, representing in himself all of life.

STONE: A time to mourn and a time to dance

He climbs alone, on the mountains of primal grief. And not once do his footsteps sound from his silent fate.

STONE: Everyone has their haters

We are like islands in the sea, separated on the surface but connected in the deep. William James When I got the idea to write this column, I almost discarded the notion, because I thought it might be too difficult to pull off. I worried the joke would run out of steam before the column ended.