I don’t weigh myself. I just go by if my clothes fit. I try not to participate too much in the incredible amount of wasted energy that women have around dealing with food. I just feel like being healthy is sort of a job requirement to be on TV, and being a writer is so much coping with fatigue and stress, and you just eat. You eat to stay awake.

It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it.

This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die. For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.

There are notes between notes, you know.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

I’m like one of those firecrackers that goes off in your pocket occasionally. I’m not really struggling with it as much as the people around me. But at least I’m not doing too much damage to anybody or to myself. It’s just the condition I’m aware of.

So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

We’’ve designed swimming pools that turn into ballrooms, and fitted security devices that fill a garage with gas if someone is stealing your car.

The way a band works is a metaphor for all sorts of collaborative and larger enterprises that people do.

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.

The media may feel obligated to carry extremely dubious stories and mute criticism in order not to offend their sources and disturb a close relationship. It is very difficult to call authorities on whom one depends for daily news liars, even if they tell whoppers.

It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule.