In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.

Fear distorts the world. Fear sees demons where only shadows dwell.

Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.

If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.

Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.

Sometimes words aren't needed.

The courage to keep trying is willingness to triumph.

Give me another Chance Then, You will Get Less than I Gain...

I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.

The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.

I want to trace my father, could you suggest a good marker pen?

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?