Alan Alda

When you embark for strange places don’t leave any of yourself safely at the shore… Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy, it’s only necessary to be rich.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

I think us bad b*tc*es is a gift from God.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.

You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

Wide awake and so confused.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

Feelings are often born from the matrix of conditions beyond your control. Let them just pass through, like a cloud in the sky.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

I Shall Return!

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.