Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.

I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.

I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I like about it - and what public health people ought to like about it - it's safe sex.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

My definition of a man's man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did.

Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.