Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Speak less and listen more.

Attend to your Configuration.

I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

There is nothing I like more than pure underground music

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.

One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.