It's a good thing we have immigrant doctors and immigrant engineers, because if you or I get sick this afternoon, we're going to go to the hospital, and we're going to hope someone serves us.

We face a far greater risk of psychological depression than of economic recession.

The best way to achieve self-esteem is to do something worthy of esteem.

Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.

You need somebody to support the retirees. You need to pay into the pension plans. You need people to work at the hospitals, at the nursing homes.

You know, throughout the world, throughout history, when countries get rich, they stop having kids.

If you have waves of immigration, you better figure out a way to turn those immigrants into red-blooded Americans, or else you end up splintering the society.

We're prosperous enough that we can afford to have one in six able-bodied men of working age sitting at home playing video games.

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

I was always exploring relationships between art and science.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.

If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.

To be married is to be neither alone nor together.

If you have any problems at all, don't hesitate to shut up.

Angel, saint, Devil's spawn, good or evil, you've got me pinned to the wall and labeled as yours until the day I die. And if you die first, then it won't be long before I follow.

He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.