In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone you can meet. Travel everywhere you can travel. Learn everything you can learn. Experience everything you can experience.

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and his rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets.

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order.