We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.

It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.

Going to the moon is not a matter of physics but of economics.

Don't just talk, act.

There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.

Wealth is the sinews of success.

It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

The practice of meditation is emptying the mind. When the mind is empty, completely empty, it's perfect meditation. It's really that simple.

Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

I hope America manages to steer itself away from partisanship and back to patriotism; we are all Americans. And as long as I can make people laugh and feel better, I'm happy.

I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.