No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

God predetermines the pathways.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.

I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known on the house tops."

I don't want to wake up and not truly be enjoying my life and these amazing things around me.

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?

I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.