I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder

Define your destiny and drive with abandon!

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we're ever likely to do that is by going into space.

You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.

Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS).

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.

What I'm not - I can't control other people's campaigns. If they decide that's what they want to do with their time and money, they certainly have a right to do it.

When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.