All generalizations are false, including this one.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

To remain young one must change.

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

A man's home is his wife's castle.

A mans home is his wifes castle.

To understand is to forgive even oneself.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

A dynamic economy begins with a good education.

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.

There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

Be bold proclaim it everywhere They only live who dare.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

A first impulse was never a crime.

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.

Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.

A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A gas balloon, which usually uses helium, has the problem that the helium cools at night when the sun is not on it, and you have to throw ballast overboard to keep it from going to the surface.

It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.

Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

It depends on the generation and gender. The males usually go for 'Police Academy,' and the young women now in their late 20s or so go for 'Punky Brewster.' I am recognized quite frequently because they're still playing that stuff on television!

When you're confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane. But it didn't affect me. I got out in time.

Cancer is WAY too serious to be taken seriously all the time.

My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.