Who needs a handgun when you've got a semiautomatic?

Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.

I may not believe in life after death, but what a gift it is to be alive now.

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.

We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?

The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

Surveys show that surveys never lie.

Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.

scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.

Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.

Granddad offered me one hundred dollars if I would cut my mop of curly hair into a neat military style. Just before the wedding, I got a light trim. It wasn't enough for Granddad, and he didn't pay.

I'm now becoming a bit more cognizant of what's going on and the responsibility of being a public figure and also being white and being in Hip-Hop.

Send not a Catt for Lard.

If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.

Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.

I don't paint, I hit.

I love playing a smart, ambitious, talented woman. Who doesn't? That's really fun for me.

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

When we turn our gaze to the inside, it becomes difficult to locate this familiar sense of self. To overcome that fear we need to feel special in some way.

A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.