Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly.

We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it.

In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.

If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes.

Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.

If God wanted us to use the metric system, He would have given us ten fingers and ten toes.

Soon or late, every dog's master's memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives.

I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we even imagined in our wildest dreams.

I'm in love with hope.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.