We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

The examined life is no picnic.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

The character of Brent Spiner. We certainly collaborate on the concept of that, but he basically writes the script, then it's sort of a combination of his voice and my voice.

I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?

I think we can lower our emissions. I think the world will be better off if we did that, and we can do it without cap and trade.

I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.

It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.

I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many north African fish dishes.