I don't trust my mind for everyday thinking, but I am convinced that it has one very great function, which is to eventually make me aware of astounding things.

Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they're going after what they think they can get.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

If my mother were a bumper sticker, she would read THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE. Taylor's mom would read WHY THE F*** NOT?

We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.

To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]