The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the unspeakable.

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.

It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.

If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.

I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.

Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

I froze in time! And I thought, "My God... I'm free!"

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

I always thought Cheers ended well. You always anticipate that the characters, theough they're leaving television, will somehow go on in another world of the imagination, which I think is good.

Reaching beyond where you are is really important.

This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.

I just think it's better to have ideas. I mean, you can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier, people die for them, people kill for them.