“If the Space Beings want to contact you, they will do so. They do the choosing.”

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.

Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.

There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!

If you have to remind yourself to concentrate during competition, you’ve got no chance to concentrate.

He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.

Don’t work out, work in.

If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?

I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.

Golf’s really fun in Japan because of the women caddies. … I saw one guy start out playing alone with his caddie.

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

I’ve spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.

Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.

It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.