A society is only as healthy as its ideas are humane.

You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.

So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.