The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Rather than being a human, be a humanitarian

when you avoid one life question, you answer another life question. The question is : what life question do you want to answer?

I had a choice. My instincts told me to hurry up and give the choking man the Heimlich maneuver. My brain told me to stay still until he expired and chalk this one up to divine intervention.

I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

Common decency is a core part of who people are.

I think the refugee problem is Europe is vastly worse than we have in the United States.

In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.

I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.