“I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.”

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

No one will do it for you.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.

When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.

I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.

You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

It means zero to be against greed.

I’ve never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I’ve never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings…. I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?

Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.

The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.

It is okay to be yourself, it is okay to color outside the line if that is who you are

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have.

Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years all the more popular lines of this opening, which comprise probably more than 25 percent of all published opening theory!

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I’m playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

I think it’s OK to talk about your military service, but there’s a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right.

I feel one step closer to Beyoncé now that we both have our own clothing lines.

You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.