Indeed, not all attacks—especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin—are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

When Bill Burke asked my mother out, she experienced the unluckiest day of her life. Diana (to become my high school sweetheart-and wife) agreeing to go out with me was the luckiest day of my life.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Being a businessman, you want to invest your time and your heart into growth and a legacy, and sometimes it's about going over there and getting it. But you don't have to lose yourself.

I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.

You can't take yourself too seriously.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a sacred commitment.

All art is knowing when to stop.