We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

If you're considered a beauty it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.

Frankly I like the fact that I no longer fit the young beauty type-people take me more seriously now.

I'll always push the envelope. To me the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?

She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it in front of her, like the old days, all set to do its little magic.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?

Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.

But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.

Make sickness itself a prayer.

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.