You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

I don't have to be the smartest person in the room, I just have to be in the room.

Seek opportunities to help and you will be a success

Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want

My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.

Of course Pluto is a planet: It's massive enough to have its shape controlled by gravity rather than material strength, which is the hallmark of planethood.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.

I think it would be great to play a superhero. That will be one of my goals.

Every building must have... its own soul.