If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

Strangers are what friends are made of.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

If giving to the needy makes me sleep every night, then I will do it everyday.

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.

I've never been one to look too far ahead since I came back into the England side and I'm not going to change that view.

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.