None of us are either all good or all bad - we're all somewhere in between - but there comes a moment in each life when we take an important step, either toward the light or toward the dark.

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job.

Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.

The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.

I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren't. Do that and I'd never be able to let her go.

And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!

Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.

How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely.

You never know just what you can do until you try.

Everyone has a price.

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

I’m coming, you impatient old coot! Keep your panties on!”-Skye yelling back to Hagan.

I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, but it took about 10 days and comedy clubs were packed.

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

I've been talking to people, and I've gone to hospitals, talked to survivors, to doctors, to caregivers. I just learned that there's really no one way for somebody to experience dealing with cancer.

Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.

God is the answer to all of those "How must it have come to be" questions.

It's impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species.

Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream. To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom."

Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material.