Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it's because at the moment they're not actually dying.

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.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago and through all that time Jews remained steadfast to it.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.

You can't get right answers if you're asking the wrong questions.

I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.

Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?

As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.