“You can always make time to do the thing you want to do, if you want it enough.”

The world sums you up by the clothes that you wear, and treats you accordingly.

You will make marvelous demonstrations.

Whatever you believe and mentally create, you can have.

If you would bring the magic out of your mind – the magic which will transform everything – you must believe.

There is no lack in the world. The lack is in you , and if you will stop seeking lack and stop thinking lack.

Every time you think a thought it ‘registers’, and comes back to you according to the vibrations and wave lengths sent out from your mind.

Whatever your condition, you can be happy if you have the right attitude.

You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.

My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on to the page. For him, writing was a process of making everything appear funny.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very bad if I had to make do without a very young person next to me.

So what on Earth there isn’t to like about New York? I don’t know. But what you do also have is a load of very ordinary restaurants which you make a terrible fuss about which are really only very average. Which is fine. One doesn’t go to New York for the food.

It’s better to make fun of yourself because you’ve always got someone around to make fun of, and they can’t sue you.

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.