The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.

Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer.

Lifestyle and livelihood are pivotal moral issues.

Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

Therapy can help you grow. Fears will just disappear.

We ought to love one another at Christmas and every day of the year.

You don't have to fake your lifestyle to be relevant. You are already a perfect creation from God. Be proud of your true self.

I don't want to say anything about my kids . . . but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.

That's the nature of research you don't know what in hell you're doing.

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

When you fall down, just get up again.

Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.