That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.

When life gives you lemons, find a friend whose life has given them tequila and have a party.

You don't have to be surprised when the end comes - just read the Word of God and get the full scoop!

I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.

The only movie I can watch on a loop, over and over, is 'Help', the Beatles movie. It's so funny and irreverent and great.

I have no problem with people seeing me as the nice guy. I hope they don't see me as just the nice guy.

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day.

I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I think that is what we do with aesthetics. It is a cyclical rhythm

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.