If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies.

We should enjoy every minute we live today because who knows if we will have a chance to do so tomorrow.

Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler did not solve an old problem, they asked a new question, and in doing so they changed the whole basis on which the old questions had been framed.

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.

happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.

Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.

Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.