There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Each step is more difficult than the last

It's almost jarring when you go to play a different character, after playing someone for so long. I love it!

My work throughout my life is always representative of the time we live in. It's all about keeping it in order and keeping it in gear.

As a pastor I reinforced my vision over lunches.

Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

Success on the outside indeed begins with success on the inside.

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

There are some guys out here that can really play golf, but it has not been their focus for that long.