I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

When the moon gets bored, it kills whales. Blue whales and fin whales and humpback, sperm, and orca whales: centrifugal forces don’t discriminate.

Suit your manner to the man.

What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.

You don't have a man, you need spaghetti.

God can dream a better dream for you than you can!

When I told my son that I had to give a talk about my work to non-mathematicians, he warned me that regular people don't think like mathematicians.

What caused the economic collapse 2008? It was the subprime mortgage crisis.

Fortunately, Hollywood is open to change. It's just a question of how to go about doing it.

I suffer from the sense that everything good in my life is about to go away.