I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies.

Faith is God's work within us.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.

If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.

I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.

There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.

America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.