I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, ‚If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.‘

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.