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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Forget the place you're trying to get to and see the beauty in right now...

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

The god of compassion is NOT the god of justice.

Great performers welcome pressure.

Your life wasn't meant to be a struggle; it was meant to be an adventure. Start living the adventure now!

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!