Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask what they believe, just observe what they do.

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

Of all creatures on earth, in proportion to their size and weight, humans have the smallest footprint on the ground and the largest on the environment.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.

I think every guy and girl would love to get to play Superman, at some point in their life.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

Every interview I do, when I'm asked about scientific issues, I say I'm not a climate scientist. I'm just giving you the informed layman's perspective... .

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story.