Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.

Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

I should and can play better. That is going to be the challenge for me.

He and his brothers were heroes at heart - even if they were all bad boy on the outside

What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?

People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.

And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.

New York has their own character. I love the fans here. They are very honest, and I love that.

To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.