People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it, ” I offered tentatively. “It was very convincing.

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.

When they laugh, it sounds like confetti.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in America.

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along.

What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?