…once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds.

Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.

…mysticism –perhaps the main aberration of the human mind.

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain.

Being a word wielder is far better than being a sword wielder. Greatest thing is you can still change the world.

If you can pick the baby up without him squirting our of your hands like a bar of soap in the shower, he's not oiled up enough.

I love being in these ensemble comedy movies. I love working with a bunch of people and coming up with, you know, How can we make this moment funnier?

A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship.

I appreciate your applause, but I don't do it for applause. I do it for cash, it's much better.

The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.