On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The beginning of forgiveness is often exhaustion. You're pooped

Motion is the sign of life. Stagnation is the prerequisite of death.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.

There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him how he liked it, he said, "It was all right but I liked the book better."

To have a huge, friendly whale willingly approach your boat and look you straight in the eye is without doubt one of the most extraordinary experiences on the planet.

I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.

Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein

Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.

The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that out.