If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.

The world is your playground - play with a sense of destiny.

If you give somebody a lot of questions to answer and then they walk by a bowl of candy, they are more likely to grab the candy because they're tired out from answering questions and can't resist.

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is.

Work backward from your goal.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now.

Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.

Life is an adventure - Savor every instant!

Most people desire comfort and pleasure.

A cute outfit can really make your day. If I wear something I look good in, my mood just goes way up.

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.

If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can't depend on somebody else creating it for you.

I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for...

I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.