Tears are for happiness.

Everyone is always learning something new, " my father would remind me when he checked to see if I was doing my homework and found me gazing out the window at the stars. "If not, why be alive?

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done, ' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

Everybody in politics lies.

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

Once we have conceived of time and space, once we have accepted their existence, then that implies that there is a structural order to bonding realities.

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire human race, other species might once again have a chance.

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes his time to finish all his sentences.