I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Thomas Carlyle

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

Nicholas Negroponte

We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.

Melinda Gates

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

Seth Rogen

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Samuel Johnson

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Tim Robbins

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Stephen Jay Gould

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

William Cobbett

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

Dario Fo

All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.

Kenneth L. Woodward

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Oscar Wilde